Halle Berry in Tulia

Hally Berry has made a good chouce finally with a film, she will be playing a lawyer in the new true story film Tulia. The good people over at cinemablend.com give us this:

Tulia will be based on the nonfiction book “Tulia: Race, Cocaine and Corruption in a Small Texas Town.” Carl Franklin (Out of Time and High Crimes) may be directing although things are still being negotiating.

I know that Berry has been looked down on in recent years, she kind of went from being this really cute and well liked actress to being seen as a crazy woman. Funny how that should happen after she wins an Oscar. This could be the movie that puts her back on the right track. She’s playing a strong female character and the story sounds quite compelling.

The plot has the potential to be quite a good look at the American justice system and the areas that need attending to. Obviously this film is also going to be about racism, but I am hoping that it also deals with the fact that 46 people were arrested for a very serious crime without any proof.

I don’t mind Franklin as the director, although of all of his movies I liked the warm hearted One True Thing best (although that one had nothing to do with courtrooms or law). He seems to be able to get decent performances out of his actors and with Berry a good director definitely helps.

Of course it could be a disaster. Berry may not be able to pull off the lawyer vibe, the director might make everything too specific instead of hitting on the different aspects of the story. They could do something stupid that would cheapen the entire plot, like putting a back story of Berry falling in love with one of the inmates. Possible problems aside I am still very open to this film. The plot is good, and I really think this could add some gold to Halle Berry’s star.