![]() After arriving at their destination, she catches the eye of a young woman on the other side of the protest named Mercy ( Kate Mara), a budding lawyer who is there because the man being executed killed her cop father’s longtime partner. It turns out that they are anti-death penalty activists who travel to protest at the sites of imminent executions in opposition to the pro-death penalty forces that have also turned out. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie never comes close to approximating the sheer audaciousness of this bit, instead squandering it on a well-meaning but increasingly contrived melodrama that is hardly believable or meaningful.Īs the story opens, we see Lucy ( Ellen Page) on what appears to be a road trip in a dilapidated Winnebago with her older sister Martha ( Amy Seimetz) and much younger brother Benjamin ( Charlie Shotwell). The meet-cute (AKA when two characters first start a romance) that kicks off “My Days of Mercy” has to rank as one of the oddest ever put before a movie camera-it may not be humorous or cute, per se, but it is certainly one of the most unusual that I can recall seeing.
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