It s 1934 in small-town Alabama: lawyer Atticus Finch (Rafe Spall), a single father, is defending Tom Robinson (Jude Owusu), a black labourer charged with the capital crime of rape.
Rafe Spall is a dignified Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s smooth and confident adaptation, which finds modern-day resonances in the 1960 classic about racial injustice in the American south