• The White Devils

  • Leon Hendrix III
  • Set Up
  • Thriller
  • 2017
  • Black List
  • 72.4
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Market: Fri, 15 Dec 2017Sold: Thu, 01 Mar 2018
AgentJoe Mann (CAA)
ManagerZac Frognowski (Grandview)
StudioWarner Brothers
A black father raises his two sons isolated and alone in the woods. They’ve never met another person in their entire lives, and have learned to survive and protect their fragile family at all cost. When they find a mysterious wounded white girl lost in their woods, prejudice, lies, and love set them on a collision course with the real world that puts all their lives at risk.
A fourteen-year-old hunter-in-training decides to go against his father’s warnings of danger, and ventures out past the parameter of woods he’s lived in for his entire life.
After the death of their mother at the hand of a white police officer, two African-American boys are raised in isolation. However, when a wounded white girl turns up in their woods, the brothers are confronted with the reality of an outside world, one their father is bent on keeping at bay.
The lives of a black father and his two sons who live secluded in a forest are turned upside down when one son finds an injured white girl.
Film
Action, Drama, Thriller, Coming of Age, Racially Based, Dark, African-American / Black Theme, Social Commentary, Dysfunctional Family, Father, Father/Son, Outsider, Rural, Siblings, Son, Suspenseful
117
R
Low
M
Black / African
14
Average
Straw Dogs, Get Out, Hanna, Detroit, 12 Years a Slave
Present, Several Days.
Various locations in the woods (pond, stream, cabin, clearing, hill), a fast food joint, a police station.
A family in a car is pulled over by the police. There is an argument and gunfire, but the details are not shown.

Years later, CASSIUS (42) and his two sons MALCOLM (14) and MANDELA (11) fish and hunt together in their cabin off the grid. As a large storm approaches, Cassius goes out to get supplies. He returns to the house with a broken leg and fever. He warns Malcolm to beware of white men.

Since his father is too injured to venture out, Malcolm goes out to hunt. He crosses the treeline, a border his father devised to keep them away from the outside world, in pursuit of a doe and stumbles upon a hurt and sickly JUNE (15). He covers her and leaves her with some supplies before returning home.

The next morning, Mandela and Malcolm hike out to find June. When they arrive at the spot Malcolm left her, she jumps out and attacks him. She releases Malcolm and they begin to set-up a fire.

When they return home, Cassius begins to grow suspicious. Mandela mentions the location of June, saying it is where they dumped the deer guts. Malcolm gets upset and they argue over what to do about...