Miss Evers' Boys (1997)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Alfre Woodard	...	Eunice Evers, R.N.
	Laurence Fishburne	...	Caleb Humphries
	Craig Sheffer	...	Dr. Douglas
	Joe Morton	...	Dr. Sam Brodus
	Obba Babatundé	...	Willie Johnson
	Von Coulter	...	Hodman Bryan
	Thom Gossom Jr.	...	Ben Washington
	Ossie Davis	...	Mr. Evers
	E.G. Marshall	...	The Senate Chairman
	Robert Benedetti	...	Senator
	Peter Stelzer	...	Senator
	Donzaleigh Abernathy	...	Nurse Betty
	Tommy Cresswell	...	Dr. Larkin
	Judson Vaughn	...	Dr. Davis
	Larry Black	...	Dr. Hamilton

Storyline

In 1932 Macon County, Alabama, the federal government launched into a medical study called The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks With Syphilis. The study selected 412 men infected with the disease and faked long term treatment, while really only giving them placebos and liniments. The premise of the action was to determine if blacks reacted similar to whites to the overall effects of the disease. The experiment was only discontinued 40 years later when a Senate investigation was initiated. At that time, only 127 of the original study group were left alive. The story is told from the point of view of Nurse Eunice Evers, who was well aware of the lack of treatment being offered, but felt her role was to console the involved men, many of whom were her direct friends. In fact the movie's name comes from the fact that a performing dancer and three musicians named their act for her - "Miss Evers' Boys"... Written by John Sacksteder  

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