Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx Team Up in “The Burial”

By: Pamela Price
Film
September 7, 2023, 10:58 am
Photo Credits: Courtesy of Prime Video / Skip Bolen © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC

Watch Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx in the Official Trailer for THE BURIAL

In Select Theaters October 6

Streaming Globally on Prime Video October 13

Inspired by true events, when a handshake deal goes sour, funeral homeowner Jeremiah O’Keefe (Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones) enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary (Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx) to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice in this inspirational, triumphant story.

Directed by Maggie Betts

Story by Doug Wright

Screenplay by Doug Wright and Maggie Betts

Based on The New Yorker article by Jonathan Harr

Gralen Bryant Banks as Walter Lee, Doug Spearman as Richard Mayfield, and Jurnee Smollett as Mame Downes in The Burial Photo: Courtesy of Amazon Prime © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC

Cast Tommy Lee Jones, Jamie Foxx, Jurnee Smollett, Mamoudou Athie, Pamela Reed, with Bill Camp, and Alan Ruck

Produced by Celine Rattray, p.g.a., Trudie Styler, p.g.a., Jamie Foxx, p.g.a., Datari Turner, p.g.a., Jenette Kahn, p.g.a., Adam Richman, p.g.a., Bobby Shriver, p.g.a.