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Speaker 1: Break the Flick with Beno on ninety six fm OH.

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Speaker 2: Last week we talked about the Believer of the Exorcist,

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Speaker 2: Exorist Time a Believer and Sounds the Monkey Side.

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Speaker 1: Buying those two things. Now, good morning, Ben, We're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about The Burial. The Burial.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So this is a new biographical film. So it's

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Speaker 2: based on a true story that's going to be released

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Speaker 2: on Amazon Prime Video this week, and it's kind of

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Speaker 2: a throwback film. It's an old school courtroom drama, which

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Speaker 2: is the sort of thing we used to get a

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Speaker 2: lot already, I know, right, Like you used to have

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Speaker 2: so many of them, like going way back obviously to

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Speaker 2: Kill a Mockingball Bird. And then in the nineties, like

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Speaker 2: every John Grisham book was turned into a movie. You

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Speaker 2: had movies like A Few Good Men, the Time to

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Speaker 2: Kill and they're just fantastic adult dramas that you don't

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Speaker 2: get much anymore because cinema has moved towards superhero movies

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Speaker 2: and everybody on screen has to be wearing their underpants

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Speaker 2: on the outside of their travelers and someone standing in

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Speaker 2: a court room objection your honor.

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Speaker 1: This maybe doesn't feel as sexy to audience as it

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Speaker 1: does for me. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of people that would agree with you, Lis,

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Speaker 2: And so there has been a few notable examples recently

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Speaker 2: that are worth mentioning. Just Mercy with Michael B. Jordan

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Speaker 2: and Jamie Fox played the defendant that was based on

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Speaker 2: a true story that was a really good film At

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Speaker 2: the Trial of the Chicago Seven, also a true ex story.

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Speaker 1: Which is excellent true ones. They are always the best.

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Speaker 2: And so this is a true story as well. And

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Speaker 2: there's a story that a lot of people probably have

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Speaker 2: never heard of. I certainly hadn't heard of it before.

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Speaker 2: It was a contract dispute between a small funeral home

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Speaker 2: operator in Mississippi and a large sort of funeral and

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Speaker 2: death care provider in America, a billion dollar conglomerate called

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Speaker 2: the Loan Group. Ring any bells, No, doesn't ring any belts,

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Speaker 2: doesn't bring any belts.

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Speaker 1: It's an age.

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Speaker 2: Old, an age old. It's basically versus golith. That's exactly correct.

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Speaker 2: That's the vibe of this story. And a contract dispute

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Speaker 2: doesn't sound all that exciting. But what makes this case

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Speaker 2: particularly interesting is the lawyer who was representing the small

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Speaker 2: business owner. This guy, So the small business owner was

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Speaker 2: called Jeremiah O'Keefe, and he hired this lawyer, this this

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Speaker 2: black American lawyer, Willie Gary, Willie E. Gary, who was

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Speaker 2: who is larger than life, bombastic sort of character, who

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Speaker 2: pulled himself up from his boostraps out of poverty as

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Speaker 2: the son of a sharecropper to become this multi million

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Speaker 2: dollar high profile lawyer with his own private jet and

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Speaker 2: multiple cars and lifestyles of the rich and famous. Very

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Speaker 2: flashy kind of guy, and so who has never really

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Speaker 2: taken on any kind of contract disputes before he did

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Speaker 2: the personal injury stuff. You know, it's sort of like

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Speaker 2: as the one on the high class kind of villains

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Speaker 2: chase it kind of game. But he's agreed to take

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Speaker 2: on this contract even though it was only you know,

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Speaker 2: initially it was like a few million dollars was potentially

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Speaker 2: the settlement, and he's like, you know, that's beneath beneath

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Speaker 2: my pay grade. And so he's rocked up and said,

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Speaker 2: you know what, let's just make the damage settlement one

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Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. One hundred million dollars, just pull the

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Speaker 2: number out of a hat. And so then they've gone

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Speaker 2: to trial against this big conglomerate. They had a huge

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Speaker 2: legal team. And on the other side you've got Willy

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Speaker 2: Gary and they couldn't have found anyone else playing the

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Speaker 2: role better than Jamie Fox. So he was the defendant

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Speaker 2: in the last legal film and now he's the lawyer, so.

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Speaker 1: It's a bit of an upgrade. And he is perfect.

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Speaker 2: He's got the great personality to play, to play someone

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Speaker 2: who's who's like so larger than life and has got

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Speaker 2: a bit of an ego to him as well. Jamie

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Speaker 2: Fox does a great job of Britain, absolutely, and when

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Speaker 2: he's up there asking his questions and talking to the jury,

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Speaker 2: it's almost like he's preaching to a church congregation.

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Speaker 1: Which is kind of the vibe of Willie E. Gary.

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Speaker 2: And and then of course you need someone to play

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Speaker 2: the defendant, the plaintiff in this case, the Jeremiah O'Keefe

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Speaker 2: and who's kind of like a beaten down small business

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Speaker 2: but he's got a lot of morals and ethics and

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Speaker 2: he was in real life as a war veteran, so

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Speaker 2: upstanding dude, but he made some mistakes in business. So

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Speaker 2: you need someone that can do both of those things.

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Speaker 2: Tommy Lee Jones, you've got two Oscar winners here in

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Speaker 2: the key roles, and they are so good. The chemistry

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Speaker 2: between these two is so fantastic. They're hilarious as well

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Speaker 2: at times, and Jamie Fox is great with the comedy stuff.

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Speaker 2: And then as the as I won't give too much away,

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Speaker 2: but as this story unfolds, it quickly becomes more than

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Speaker 2: a contract dispute. It becomes about race. It becomes about

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Speaker 2: what this loan group did to the black community. They

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Speaker 2: did a deal with the National Baptist Convention to get

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Speaker 2: which earned them billions of dollars, and they made all

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Speaker 2: these promises that they were going to bring along black

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Speaker 2: people and give them job opportunities, give them revenue into

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Speaker 2: their impoverished communities.

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Speaker 1: Just didn't do it. Just didn't do it world.

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Speaker 2: And so then in the end, the the result of

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Speaker 2: this case, it's one of those films where the conclusion

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Speaker 2: comes and you're almost jumping off your couch cheering, which

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Speaker 2: is just fantastic. And then of course you get the

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Speaker 2: stuff at the end where it's like, Okay, this is

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Speaker 2: what the true story was, and these are the people involved,

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Speaker 2: and so it's a fascinating story, like Aaron Brockovich kind

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Speaker 2: of a filming one of those David versus Goliath stories,

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Speaker 2: as you mentioned. Least, Yeah, Unfortunately, it probably doesn't quite

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Speaker 2: live up to the standard of those two lead actors,

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Speaker 2: Jamie Fox and Tommy Lee Jones are so good and

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Speaker 2: their stuff is fantastic. All the other characters are kind

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Speaker 2: of superficial. They don't really add a lot to the story.

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Speaker 2: The sort of the villain of the piece, the chairman,

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Speaker 2: the owner of the long group, not that amazing, kind

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Speaker 2: of like a cartoonish villain almost, And so it probably

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Speaker 2: stops this film from getting up to the category of

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Speaker 2: your Aaron Brockovich or You're Just Mercy or a few

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Speaker 2: good men. It doesn't really have those iconic moments that

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Speaker 2: you'd go, oh, this is a film we're going to

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Speaker 2: be talking about in ten years time.

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Speaker 1: Probably not, but it's still I like the sound of it.

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Speaker 2: It's so rare to get a film like an adult

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Speaker 2: drama like this on your screens that it's worth a

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Speaker 2: look just for that reason alone. It's a very engaging film.

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Speaker 2: The two stars that we've talked about are so magnetic

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Speaker 2: on screen. The charismas off the hook, and they make

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Speaker 2: it a definitely watchable movie, not perfect but pretty enjoyable.

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Speaker 1: Right, Well, how many they're called boobs ed? Are you giving?

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Speaker 1: That's the thing. So many good lines for that film.

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Speaker 1: You can't handle the truth, so many. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: give it three D. All right, I'm in. Thank you, Ben,

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Speaker 1: These guys