The new legal drama Just Mercy is set in Monroeville, Alabama, the town where Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird, the Pulitzer-winning novel about racial injustice. The audience knows this because they’re reminded of it several times and the parallels to Lee’s story are obvious. Just Mercy is an earnest, well-intentioned film with a couple of outstanding supporting performances but it feels stale, a story we’ve seen many times before. Based on true events, Just Mercy follows rookie attorney and Harvard grad Bryan Stevenson (founder of the prisoner advocacy group Equal Justice Initiative and played Michael B. Jordan) in 1988 when he took on the case of Walter McMillian (known as Johnny D and played by Jamie Foxx). Johnny D was convicted of killing a white woman, but Stevenson is convinced he’d been railroaded so attempts to prove his innocence and prevent his execution. When Stevenson...