Burden (2018 film)

[4] The film stars Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wilkinson, Tess Harper, and Usher.[6] The film follows Mike Burden, an orphan raised within the Ku Klux Klan in the town of Laurens, South Carolina.During the opening of the infamous Redneck Shop, Mike falls in love with a woman who urges him to leave so they can have a better life together.[8] A black Baptist church congregation, led by Reverend Kennedy, agrees to protect Mike, his girlfriend and her son.The website's critical consensus reads, "Burden grapples clumsily with its undeniably worthy themes, but its honorable intentions — and strong performances — make it easy to forgive those flaws.
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