
Interview: Anthony Mackie on ‘Night Catches Us’ and the Black Panthers
Critically acclaimed actor Anthony Mackie plays Marcus in Night Catches Us, a beautifully directed drama by first-time feature director Tanya Hamilton, who also wrote the script. Set in Philadelphia in 1976 just after the height of the Black Power movement, the story opens with Marcus’s return to the city he left mysteriously several years earlier, and gradually reveals the complex emotional and political reasons behind his departure. As the story unfolds, we witness the brutality and racism of local police, who act with impunity.