
The Watsons Go To Birmingham (2013)
Tonik Productions, WGTB Productions, Walden Media
Directed by Kenny Leon
Starring Bryce Clyde Jenkin, Harrison Knight, Skai Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, and Wood Harris
Based on the bestselling book, “The Watsons Go to Birmingham,” the film chronicles the ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, and how they are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963 during the height of the civil rights movement.