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Review: ‘Brave the Dark’ (2025), starring Jared Harris, Nicholas Hamilton, Jamie Harris, Sasha Bhasin, Will Price and Kimberly Fairbanks

March 11, 2025

by Carla Hay

Pictured in center: Jared Harris and Nicholas Hamilton in “Brave the Dark” (Photo courtesy of Angel Studios)

“Brave the Dark” (2025)

Directed by Damian Harris

Culture Representation: Taking place from 1986 to 1987, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the dramatic film “Brave the Dark” features a predominantly white cast of characters (with a few African Americans and Latin people) representing the working-class and middle-class.

Culture Clash: A bachelor teacher takes on the responsibility of having a troubled teenage student live with teacher, who wants to help the teenager stay out of trouble and lead a good life.

Culture Audience: “Brave the Dark” will appeal mainly to people who are interested in faith-based movies that are redemption stories.

Nicholas Hamilton and Jared Harris in “Brave the Dark” (Photo courtesy of Angel Studios)

“Brave the Dark” is based on a true story, but it portrays a teacher/mentor as almost too good to be true. And this drama sometimes gets dragged down in schmaltz. However, the movie is able to overcome its flaws with capable acting and believable scenarios.

Directed by Damian Harris, “Brave the Dark” was written by Dale G. Bradley and Lynn Robertson Hay. The movie takes place in 1986 and 1987 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where “Brave the Dark” was filmed on location. “Brave the Dark” doesn’t change the names or personal histories of the two main people at the center of the story: a bachelor teacher and the troubled teenage student whom the teacher invites to live with him.

“Brave the Dark,” which is told in mostly chronological order with occasional flashbacks, begins in 1986. The movie’s opening scene takes place on track field at Garden Spot High School in New Holland, Pennsylvania. Born in 1986, Nathan “Nate” Willams (played by Nicholas Hamilton) is in his last year at his high school. He’s on the school’s track team and is one of the better runners on the team.

However, Nate has anger issues and has been committing crimes. The first indication of his anger issues is shown early on in the movie, in a scene that takes place at the student lockers in the school’s hallway. Nate gets agitated when sees a schoolmate named Carl (played by Sung Yoon) talking flirtatiously to Nate’s girlfriend Tina (played by Sasha Bhasin) at her locker. Tina isn’t really flirting with Carl, but she’s friendly and enjoying Carl’s attention.

Nate gruffly tells Carl to stop talking to Tina. Seeing that Nate looks angry enough to start a fight, Carl backs off and walks away. Tina looks annoyed at Nate and tells Nate that nothing was going on between her and Carl: “We were just talking. Don’t be weird.” It won’t be the last time that Nate acts irrationally possessive of Tina.

Nate hangs out with some of the school’s teenage troublemakers, led by a spoiled brat named Johnny Alecco (played by Will Price), who’s usually the one who plans their crimes and mischief making. An early scene in the movie shows how Nate, Johnny and another friend named Noah (played by Cole Tristan Murphy) do a nighttime burglary of a place called West Barnes Appliance Store, where they steal some items, such as portable stereos and VCRs.

Meanwhile, the saintly teacher who eventually comes to Nate’s rescue is middle-aged Stan Deen (played by Jared Harris, a brother of “Brave the Dark” director Damian Harris), who is the type of person who never seems to lose his temper or never has a bad word to say about anyone. Stan is a kind and compassionate teacher who is willing to help any student who’s in need. In a heart-to-heart moment that Stan later has with Nate, Stan confesses that when he was a young man, he tried and failed to become a Hollywood actor.

On the day after Nate and his pals secretly robbed the appliance store, Stan randomly gives a large chocolate bar to Nate in class. It’s an act of kindness that Nate doesn’t expect. Nate later explains why this chocolate bar meant so much to him at the time. Stan is well-liked by the students, but many of his faculty co-workers think Stan is too much of a softie.

Stan’s closest friend is his co-worker Deborah “Debbie” May (played by Kimberly Fairbanks), who has been trying to persuade Stan to join the tennis team that she’s a member of in her spare time. Debbie seems like she’s romantically attracted to Stan, but he treats her like a platonic friend. In fact, Stan doesn’t seem interested in dating anyone at all.

Stan is a bachelor who has no children and lives by himself. He used to live with his ailing mother, who died the previous year after having a stroke eight years ago. Stan still has the wheelchair that his mother used. Stan has no use for the wheelchair, but he can’t seem to part with it because he seems to want to keep the wheelchair as memento of his mother.

Debbie advises Stan to get rid of the wheelchair as a way to move on and heal from his grief. Stan assures her, “This too shall pass.” It’s a saying that Stan repeats a lot in the movie, almost to annoying levels.

It’s not really made clear in the movie how police found out that Nate was involved in the appliance store burglary, but he’s the only one of the trio of burglars who gets arrested. Nate, who has an avid interest in photography, is arrested while he’s in the school’s photography darkroom with Tina. Several students and faculty members also witness this arrest.

But here comes do-gooder Stan to the rescue. Nate is locked up in Lancaster County Prison, where Stan is the only one who visits him while Nate awaits his trial for the burglary. Stan finds out that Nate was living in foster care until he turned 18. Before he was in foster care, Nate lived for several years with his mother’s parents. Nate tells Stan that Nate’s mother died in a car accident when Nate was 6 years old. Nate also says that Nate’s father is a deadbeat dad who abandoned the family when Nate was a boy.

Nate has not seen his maternal grandparents (played by Michael Harrah and Carol Florence) in several years and doesn’t even know where they live. But plucky Stan tracks down these grandparents and arranges for Nate to be reunited with Nate’s grandparents, who pay for Nate’s bail so that Nate won’t be incarcerated while awaiting trial. Stan also convinces Nate’s reluctant grandparents to have Nate live with them.

Several flashbacks to Nate’s childhood, when Nate was 6 years old (played by Banks Quinney), reveal what happened between Nate’s mother (played by Scottie DiGiacomo) and Nate’s father (played by Tobias Segal) that caused Nate to come from a broken home. The truth is much more disturbing than what Nate is willing to tell people. Nate was put in foster care after his grandparents could no longer handle his juvenile delinquency.

Stan notices that Nate hasn’t come back to school after Nate was bailed out and went to live with Nate’s grandparents. And so, Stan goes to visit Nate at the grandparents’ home. Stan finds out that Nate has no intention of going back to school because Nate had to get a job to pay back his grandparents for the bail money and because Nate needs money to get his car out of impoundment. Nate’s grandparents, who are somewhat skeptical that Nate will be able to stay out of trouble, agree with this plan for Nate to work instead of going to school.

However, Stan is determined to help Nate graduate from high school. Stan convinces the grandparents to let Nate live with Stan, on the condition that Nate goes back to school and graduates. Stan also offers to be Nate’s tutor for whatever academic help that Nate needs. The grandparents willingly let Nate live with Stan because they know Nate has been a troublemaker for most of his life, and they don’t really want Nate to live with them.

Stan inviting Nate to live with Stan isn’t spoiler information because it’s already revealed in the “Brave the Dark” trailer. Most of Stan’s co-workers, including a judgmental snob named Miriam Baker (played by Susanne Sulby), think that Stan is making a terrible mistake by letting Nate live with Stan. They warn Stan that Nate could steal from Stan or could get violent. Stan doesn’t listen to the naysayers.

“Brave the Dark” follows familiar formulas of movies about a teacher who wants to have a special mentorship bond with a tough student. Predictably, Nate resists a lot of the discipline that Stan wants to impose on Nate. Stan tries to break through Nate’s pessimism and does what he can to boost Nate’s low self-esteem. Nate has secrets that are eventualy revealed and deliver the most emotional moments in the movie.

Jared Harris gives a perfectly fine performance as Stan, but the movie gets a tad too contrived when it shows that Stan conveniently has connections that help Stan in his misson to “reform” Nate. It becomes a bit too much—so much so that the movie has Nate making sarcastic comments about all the ways that Stan is able to get things done because Stan has surprising connections in all the right places.

For example, when Stan goes to Lancaster Country Prison to visit Nate there for the first time, Stan is told that only family members are allowed for visitation. But lo and behold, the prison warden just happens to be one of Stan’s former students. That’s why Stan gets an exception made for him to visit Nate as a non-family member.

And here’s another “lucky coincidence”: Stan is able to convince the judge in Nate’s trial to give Nate a lenient sentence because the judge has a daughter who used to be one of Stan’s students. Stan also uses his connections with Nate’s parole officer Barney (played by Jamie Harris, brother of Jared Harris and Damian Harris) to help Nate out of a tough situation that could get Nate punished.

Hamilton does a convincing performance as Nate and makes the character more than just an “angry young man.” Hamilton’s best scenes in “Brave the Dark” are when Nate shows his vulnerabilities. Some of these scenes are heart-wrenching to watch and might be triggering for people who’ve done self-destructive things in their lives, or have had loved ones do the type of self-destructive things that Nate does in the movie.

The pacing for “Brave the Dark” occasionally gets dull. But if you’re able to keep watching after the first half of this 112-minute movie, the story gets better as it goes along. To its credit, “Brave the Dark” doesn’t do a lot of sanctimonious religious preaching, like other faith-based movies are prone to do. To its discredit, “Brave the Dark” ignores harsh realities about racial inequalities for punishment in the criminal justice system. It’s the type of movie that oversimplifies some complicated issues that would come up in real life.

In real life, chances are very slim that “at risk” youth will have a teacher like Stan to come along to give them undivided attention, help them out of bad situations, and offer them a place to live. But movies like “Brave the Dark” are made because these stories are not the norm for teachers and troubled teens. “Brave the Dark” has an admirable message that if more people took the types of risks that Stan takes for someone who is considered “hopeless,” then it could change lives for the better and have a positive ripple effect on others.

Angel Studios released “Brave the Dark” in U.S. cinemas on January 24, 2025.

Review: ‘Morbius,’ starring Jared Leto

March 30, 2022

by Carla Hay

“Morbius”

Directed by Daniel Espinosa

Culture Representation: Taking place mostly in the New York City metropolitan area (and briefly in Costa Rica, Greece and Sweden), the horror/action film “Morbius” features a cast of predominantly white characters (with some African Americans and Latinos) representing the working-class, middle-class and wealthy.

Culture Clash: A brilliant but illness-plagued biochemist named Dr. Michael Morbius finds the cure to diseases and death, but it comes at a price of becoming a superpowered vampire who craves human blood.

Culture Audience: “Morbius” will appeal primarily to people interested in movies adapted from Marvel comic books, but the movie’s weak screenplay ultimately lowers the quality of this already-mediocre film.

Jared Leto and Adria Arjona in “Morbius” (Photo by Jay Maidment/Columbia Pictures)

“Morbius” works better as a horror movie than as a vampire superhero origin story that’s supposed to have a place in the “Spider-Man” franchise. “Morbius” has too many plot holes and not enough personality for it to ever be considered a classic superhero film. In fact, “Morbius” recycles so many familiar vampire clichés and action battle scenes, viewers will feel like they’ve already seen the movie before it even ends.

And so, what’s a stereotypical movie to do when it doesn’t have a lot of new ideas to offer? It usually has to rely on the charisma of the cast members to engage viewers in a way that will make audiences feel personally invested in what happens to the characters. But that charisma is mostly lacking in “Morbius,” which has a very talented cast that is limited by uninspired dialogue that renders their characters as nothing more than generic and hollow. “Morbius” was directed by Daniel Espinosa and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.

That’s not to say that “Morbius” is a complete waste of time. The movie’s visual effects, although not spectacular, still get the job done well enough that they look convincing in most parts of the film. And the acting isn’t terrible. The performances in “Morbius” just are not up to the memorable standards they could be for audiences who have become used to superhero movies where the main characters have strong and distinctive personalities.

Even as an origin story, “Morbius” falls flat. Dr. Michael Morbius (played by Jared Leto), a brilliant biochemist, is first seen in Costa Rica with a team of people, as he entices a cave full of bats out of the cave, by taking a knife and using it to slice the palm of his hand with a superficial wound that draws blood. Considering that bats wouldn’t just swarm out of a cave because they saw or smelled a human being’s bleeding hand, this scene is supposed to show these are no ordinary bats. They’re vampire bats.

“Morbius” then abruptly cuts to a flashback that takes place 25 years earlier in Greece. Michael (played by Charlie Shotwell), at the age of about 12 or 13, is in a children’s ward of a hospital when he gets a shy new roommate who’s about the same age. The newcomer’s name is Lucien Crown (played by Joseph Esson), although Michael insists on calling him Milo. This new roommate quickly goes along with being called by this new name, with the implication being that he’s got self-esteem issues and is desperate for a new identity. Milo uses crutches to walk and needs a machine to help him breathe.

The two boys have health problems that mostly confine them to their rooms, so they know what it’s like to feel like outcasts. From their hospital window, Michael and Milo can see bratty schoolboys, who are about the same age, taunting them for having health issues. Milo asks Michael after one of these tauntings: “What would you do if you could be normal for just one hour?” Michael curtly answers, “I don’t think about it.”

Milo and Michael become fast friends, with Michael being the more assertive and confident of the two. Michael tells Milo that they’re both in this hospital because they have the same blood disease and because “there’s something missing from our DNA,” so they are undergoing experiments. A scientist named Dr. Emil Nicholas (played by Jared Harris) is the leader of these experiments.

Dr. Nicholas is kind and paternal to Michael and Milo. Where are these boys’ parents or other family members? The movie never answers that question. However, people familiar with Morbius from Marvel Comics already know that Milo comes from a wealthy family, while Morbius was raised by a single mother. The Morbius in this movie never talks about his family or anything else about his background.

One day, Michael saves Milo’s life. When Milo’s breathing machine malfunctions, and Milo loses consciousness, Michael is able to quickly solve the problem. He fixes the machine by removing a tiny spring of coiled wire. Dr. Nicholas is so impressed with Michael’s problem-solving skills, he tells Michael that Michael will be sent to a school for gifted children.

Before Michael leaves, he writes a letter to Milo in which he promises that they will see each other again. Soon after Michael leaves, Milo is outside and being harassed by some of the bullies who have found Milo carrying this letter. The harassment turns into an assault that’s halted when Dr. Nicholas comes to Milo’s rescue.

The movie then flash-forwards to the present day. An adult Dr. Morbius is on stage in Sweden and about to receive the Nobel Prize. At this point in his life, he uses arm braces to walk. While a Nobel Prize official makes an introductory speech, it’s mentioned that Morbius was a prodigy who completed his doctorate at the age of 19. Viewers never get to see what happens next, but it’s described in the next scene.

“Morbius” then makes an abrupt time shift once again. He’s now back in New York City, where he lives. Morbius works at a hospital and has built a scientific lab on a cargo ship, where he can do his top-secret experiments. While attending to a patient—a girl named Anna (played by Zaris-Angel Hator), who’s about 9 or 10 years old—she says to him, “I can’t believe you dissed the king and queen of Sweden.” Morbius then makes an anti-monarchist comment in response.

What happened on the way to Morbius getting a Nobel Prize? A newspaper headline reveals that he refused the prize, after going to all the trouble of being at the ceremony. This was a missed opportunity for the filmmakers to show Morbius having an irreverent, maybe mischievous side that made Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal of Tony Stark/Iron Man so fun to watch for many fans of superhero movies. Unfortunately, what happened on that Nobel Prize stage stayed on that Nobel Prize stage, only to leave it up to viewers’ imagination what kind of uproar Morbius caused at that event.

Morbius’ closest colleague is Dr. Martine Bancroft (played by Adria Arjona), who is more cautious than Morbius is, when it comes to his radical experiments. She warns him that she knows he’s doing experiments that mix good DNA and bad DNA, and he could lose his medical license if authorities found out. Morbius is undeterred by Martine’s concerns. Martine later becomes Morbius’ obvious potential love interest, even though Leto and Arjona have little to no romantic chemistry together.

Meanwhile, Morbius’ former childhood friend Milo (played by Matt Smith) and Dr. Nicholas are both in New York City too. Milo (who is now a flashy extrovert, in contrast to how introverted he was as a child) is eager to get the same serum that Morbius has been working on to cure them both of their blood diseases. Morbius tells Milo that he can’t have any of the serum until Morbius tests it on himself first. You know where this is going, of course.

Because “Morbius” is a comic-book movie, viewers have to suspend disbelief that within this hospital, Morbius works in a lab with a large cylindrical cage full of bats. It’s implied that these are the same bats that Morbius got in Costa Rica. Morbius wants to see if he can solve his health problems by infusing his DNA with bat DNA in a serum, so that Morbius can not only eliminate his illnesses, he can also possibly live forever. Try to read that without laughing.

A trial test on a mouse proves to be successful. And the next thing you know, Morbius and Martine are on the cargo ship off of the coast of Long Island, so she can inject him with the serum. Why have the lab on a cargo ship, which is out in the open and would put it on the radar of the U.S. Coast Guard or other entities that monitor sea vessels? Don’t expect an answer for that either.

It’s all just a way for Morbius to end up killing people when the serum experiment goes very wrong, and he finds out that he has become a homicidal vampire who craves human blood. A massacre ensues that leaves eight people dead on the ship, with Morbius and Martine as the only survivors. Martine’s injuries (she was knocked down by one of the ship’s crew members) leave her recovering in a hospital. It won’t be the last time she gets seriously injured in this movie.

Meanwhile, the formerly sickly-looking Morbius finds out he’s now healthy with an athletic physique and superpowers, but he’s also a vampire who now craves human blood. Morbius is horrified and deeply ashamed of what he’s become, and he wants to make things right by trying to reverse the serum. However, he’s the main suspect in the cargo ship massacre, so he goes into hiding. And where does this fugitive go when authorities are looking for him? Right back to his workplace, where no one seems to notice that he no longer has to use braces to walk.

Two agents from the FBI are hot on Morbius’ trail: Simon Stroud (played by Tyrese Gibson) and Alberto Ramirez (played by Al Madrigal), whose names are not Mutt and Jeff, even though they act like Mutt and Jeff stereotypes. Agent Stroud is the stoic, no-nonsense type. Agent Ramirez is the goofy, nervous type. Agents Stroud and Ramirez are assigned to the FBI’s Department of Enhanced Individuals.

That’s why these FBI agents don’t really seem shocked when Morbius is brought in for questioning, and he starts to partially transform into a vampire right in front of them. Agent Ramirez brings holy water to protect himself in this interrogation, while Agent Stroud somewhat scoffs at Agent Ramirez’s fear of vampires. It’s enough to say that Morbius’ stint in a detention center is short-lived, and he goes on the run again.

The rest of “Morbius” is essentially a “vampire on the loose” story, with the FBI trying to capture Morbius, who gets blamed for some more vampire murders that he did not commit. The movie falters in how certain fights involving Morbius (such as a major brawl that happens in a subway station) are treated as everyday occurrences and certainly not investigated adequately by law enforcement that has launched a massive manhunt (or is it vampire hunt?) for Morbius. But viewers can’t really take this “massive manhunt” seriously when Agents Stroud and Ramirez are the only FBI officials who seem to be available to show up and investigate the vampire crime scenes.

The action sequences in “Morbius” liven up an otherwise dull storyline that lacks originality. Smith seems to be having some campy fun in his role as the adult Milo. Leto has done much better work elsewhere, although “Morbius” certainly isn’t his worst movie. The rest of the cast members are serviceable in their average roles.

Two mid-credits scenes tease Morbius’ involvement with a character who was in 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” Who this character is not a secret, but it won’t be mentioned in this review anyway, so as not to spoil the surprise for viewers who don’t know. Spider-Man and Venom both get briefly mentioned in “Morbius.” It’s enough to say, based on what the underwhelming “Morbius” has to offer, any future “Morbius” movies—just like many other superhero movies—might have to rely on Spider-Man to bring more excitement to the story.

Columbia Pictures will release “Morbius” in U.S. cinemas on April 1, 2022.

Review: ‘Robert the Bruce,’ starring Angus Macfadyen, Anna Hutchinson, Zach McGowan, Brandon Lessard, Talitha Bateman and Gabriel Bateman

April 24, 2020

by Carla Hay

“Robert the Bruce”

Directed by Richard Gray

Culture Representation: Taking place in Scotland in 1306, “Robert the Bruce” has an all-white cast of characters representing royalty to the working-class.

Culture Clash: The movie’s title character is an exiled king of Scotland, which wants independence from England and is at the brink of civil war over it.

Culture Audience: “Robert the Bruce” will appeal mostly to people who are fans of historical European movies, but the movie’s low budget and mediocre storytelling prevent it from being an epic classic.

Anna Hutchinson and Gabriel Bateman in “Robert the Bruce” (Photo courtesy of Screen Media Films)

When Scottish actor Angus Macfadyen played Robert the Bruce in Mel Gibson’s Oscar-winning 1995 epic “Braveheart,” he probably wouldn’t have predicted back then that he would have a starring role 25 years later in a movie about Robert the Bruce. Despite some impressive outdoor cinematography by John Garrett, “Robert the Bruce” is far from an Oscar-caliber film. It’s not terrible, but it’s also not very compelling.

The story is fairly simple: Robert the Bruce, an exiled rebel King of Scotland, has gone into hiding from the English army that’s out to get him for leading Scotland’s revolution against England. Clocking in at 122 minutes, “Robert the Bruce” (directed by Richard Gray) could definitely have cut about 30 minutes of the film, and it would’ve helped the mediocre screenplay (which was co-written by Macfadyen and Eric Belgau) become a lot less bloated.

People looking for majestic and suspenseful war battles with hundreds of people won’t find those kinds of scenes in this movie—and that’s probably because of the film’s low budget. Much of “Robert the Bruce” doesn’t take place on battlefields but instead takes place inside snow-covered, dilapidated houses in the woods, where Robert the Bruce spends time hiding out or recovering from attempted-murder injuries.

In the beginning of the film, there is a brief reference to William Wallace (the character that Gibson portrayed in “Braveheart”), when nobleman John Comyn III (played by Jared Harris), an opponent of Robert the Bruce, taunts him during a confrontation by saying: “You want the one thing that you cannot have: to be William Wallace, to be loved like he was, to be brave like him, to be free like him … How it must coil in your gut!”

Unfortunately, Harris (who’s a terrific actor in pretty much anything he does) has very limited screen time in the movie. His role in “Robert the Bruce” is essentially a cameo. But the Comyns and their allies continue to be a thorn in Robert’s side for the rest of the story.

The movie uses a somewhat unnecessary meta tactic of having a voiceover narrator in the beginning of the film, who’s eventually shown to be a woman telling the tale of Robert the Bruce to two children in a bedtime story setting. And then it turns out that the women and those children end up meeting Robert the Bruce and helping him with his cause. The narration aspect of the film kind of throws off the tone of the movie, and it doesn’t work well at all.

Before Robert the Bruce encounters the family that plays a pivotal part in the story, the movie shows betrayals among the small group of Scottish rebels who have stayed with Robert and have planned to go to Norway with him. There are some violent fights, Robert get seriously injured, and he barely escapes with his life.

In addition to the English army that is after Robert, some Scots who are enticed by the financial rewards of helping the English also become Robert’s enemies. One of these Scots is Brandubh (played by Zach McGowan), who leads a group of bounty hunters who are looking to capture and kill Robert.

The woman and children who find Robert almost dead in the snow are the same family seen earlier in the film in the storytelling scene. They are widow Morag Macfie (played by Anna Hutchinson), her orphaned teenage nephew Carney (played by Brandon Lessard), her orphaned teenage niece Iver (played by Talitha Bateman) and her 11-year-old son Scot (played by Gabriel Bateman). The family knows who Robert the Bruce is when they find him barely alive, so they immediately bring him to the family home to help him recover from his injuries.

It isn’t long in the movie before Robert has recovered enough to train Carney on sword fighting (in a scene that is very reminiscent of Obi Wan-Kenobi and Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars”), while Carney teaches Scott some archery. (Of course, these skills will come in handy later in the inevitable final showdown scene.) Robert’s physical recovery is so good that he even starts dancing a jig with Morag. Yes, it’s that kind of movie.

Macfadyen’s performance as Robert the Bruce is mostly stoic and serviceable. Viewers don’t really get to see a lot of the character’s leadership skills, because Robert the Bruce is isolated in hiding or recovering from injuries for much of the movie. The rest of the actors get the job done well enough, and the movie’s costume design is passable, but there’s nothing about this movie that’s award-worthy. And some of the dialogue lines are just plain corny. At one point, John utters to the family who’s helped him: “I see now in your eyes what Scotland can be.”

“Robert the Bruce” can certainly find an audience with people who feel compelled to check out any movie related to Scottish history. For everyone else, the film is worth watching if you don’t mind seeing an inferior spinoff to “Braveheart.”

Screen Media Films released “Robert the Bruce” on digital and VOD on April 24, 2020.