Watch Night Catches Us

The movie Night Catches Us is a drama that set during 1976 where tension between races is high. A young man named Marcus returns to the neighborhood he grew up in. Marcus is African American and has been trying to fit in and dealing with rejection from a white world. This neighborhood is in Philadelphia where things are anything but peaceful at this time.

When Marcus gets home it is in the middle of the Black Power movement. His neighbors and even his family treat him as though he is an outsider. He finds comfort in his friend Patricia and her small child. Marcus has information about a death that can put him and his loved ones at risk. He goes to great lengths to keep this secret. Marcus must protect himself and Patricia from the tension in the neighborhood. The movie stars Kerry Washington and Anthony Markie.