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Movie · 2019

The Best of Enemies

Released 5 April 2019 More from 2019 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Wilbur Fitzgerald
as Fire Safety Inspector
70
Afemo Omilami
as Franklin Mose
68
Nick Searcy
as Garland Keith
60
Ned Vaughn
as Wilbur Hobby
54
Taraji P. Henson
as Ann Atwater
48
Babou Ceesay
as Bill Riddick
40
Tim Ware
as Judge Leslie Hallford
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
30years between the oldest and youngest billed
70Wilbur Fitzgerald — oldest on the call sheet
40Babou Ceesay — youngest billed
57average age of the credited cast
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