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Richard and Mildred Loving, 1967

Loving is a 2016 British­American drama film directed and

written by Jeff Nichols. It stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Calendar:
Negga as Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the
1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia,

which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial
marriage. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at

November 4the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.The film is to be released
on November 4, 2016 .The film follows the courtship and

marriage of Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard

Loving, a white man. They are arrested and sentenced to Loving
prison in Virginia in 1958, because their interracial
marriage violates the state’s anti­miscegenation laws.

Exiled to Washington DC, they sue the state of Virginia in a

series of proceedings leading to the Supreme Court’s

unanimous decision in Loving v. Virginia, which holds that

laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.