Miss Evers' Boys (1997)

Directors

Joseph Sargent

Cast

Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Joe Morton, Obba Babatundé

The story

The film tells the story of a medical study with covert goals organized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, conducted on poor African American men in the years 1932–1972 at Tuskegee University, designed to study the effects of untreated syphilis. The story is told from the perspective of the small town nurse Eunice Evers who is well aware of the lack of treatment, but feels her role is to console the involved men, many of whom are her close friends.

Genres

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