Focus has released the trailer for Jeff Nichols‘ (Mud, Midnight Special) latest, Loving, which tells the true story of an interracial couple fighting for their right to marry in Virginia in the 1960s. The film stars Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Nick Kroll, and Michael Shannon.
Loving opens in select cities November 4th.
From acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols, Loving celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry – and their love story has become an inspiration to couples ever since.
