Meanwhile, Martha is determined to free their father (who she still believes is innocent) and manages to hire a lawyer, who is then able to get a four-month stay of execution to look for legal loopholes or any new evidence to re-open the case. During a solo excursion to a demonstration in Missouri, Lucy and Mercy start a romance. They begin to keep in contact over the phone and over Skype. Despite the political tensions between the two, Lucy and Mercy grow closer to each other. At one demonstration outside a prison in Illinois, Lucy meets Mercy Bromage, a lawyer whose father is a police officer with ties to the death penalty case the crowd is protesting. The sisters live in their parents' house in a small Ohio town, and travel to various states in a mobile home, together with their little 10-year-old brother Ben. Lucy Moro and her older sister Martha are anti-death penalty protestors, fighting for the acquittal of their father Simon, who is on death row for the murder of their mother eight years ago. It was released in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2019, by Signature Entertainment, and was released in the United States on July 5, 2019, by Lionsgate. It screened at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2017, as a Gala Presentation. It stars Kate Mara, Elliot Page, Amy Seimetz, Brian Geraghty, and Elias Koteas. Polish cinematographer Radek Ladczuk, who shot The Babadook, presents the down-and-out Middle-American backdrops in a starkly realistic fashion but also does his job to help the stars look good.My Days of Mercy is a 2017 romantic drama film directed by Tali Shalom Ezer and written by Joe Barton. Playing the friskier of the two, Mara has fun with her role the two are a good onscreen match. Now 30, Page still looks ten years younger and delivers strongly as an emotionally stunted young woman who’s been robbed of anything resembling a normal or amorous life due to her father’s predicament. To its credit, the film doesn’t propagandize against the death penalty but, rather, dramatizes the fact of the matter as it finally hits family members when all options run out. The best moments lie simply in the interchanges between the two women good friends in real life, Page and Mara, according to the press notes, were looking for a project to do together for some time until finding this one, and their verbal sparring and intimate scenes, of which there are several, feel warm and credible, even if they don’t go too far.Īs the execution date for Lucy’s father approaches and the existence of a boyfriend of Mercy’s rears its head, things get grim again. All this goes on in a depressed environment filled with trailer dwellers, grungy bikers, all-day beer drinkers and all-round no-hopers-Trump-country, some will call it. The older Mercy is decidedly the aggressor, dropping suggestive innuendo and seemingly stimulated by Lucy’s self-protectively sarcastic remarks on a moment-to-moment basis, the interplay between the two is engaging and rife with an erotic undercurrent. What’s agreeable and appealing here is how slowly and naturalistically matters gestate between the two it does seem somewhat contrived that two such diametrically opposed women could clear a path toward a relationship, but their obsessions overlap to a degree, just as there could be unknown separate issues that bring them together. Still, love has overcome bigger obstacles than this, and it’s pretty clear from the get-go that Mercy has something on her mind other than carrying signs and batting around the age-old arguments. Mercy is on hand because the man who’s about to have his final meal smoked the partner of her police officer father cop killers deserve no leniency in her book. Martha, in particular, refuses to accept Dad’s guilt and still hopes to find enough exonerating evidence to get him off the hook. Lucy, whose wardrobe initially seems to consist exclusively of an anti-death penalty t-shirt, is there with her older sister Martha (Amy Seimetz) and younger brother Benjamin (Charlie Shotwell) because their father (Elias Koteas) is on death row for murdering his wife-their mother-eight years earlier. The two women are on opposite sides of the debate.
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