Directed by Andrew Heckler. This time, the movie’s flawed hero is the real-life Mike Burden (Garrett Hedlund), an uneducated repo man in small-town South Carolina. Garrett Hedlund…

101 Studios has released a new trailer for Burden, one of the buzz titles at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival where the drama won the Audience Award. The film follows Mike Burden (Garrett Hedlund), an orphan raised within the Ku Klux Klan who attempts to break away when the girl (Andrea Riseborough) he falls in love with urges him to leave for a better life together. The year is 1996, and Mike … The Klan seeks Mike out for vengeance.
The film’s title, Burden, does double duty here. A fact-based drama about former KKK member Mike Burden (Garrett Hedlund), “Burden” follows the story of what happened after the former “grand dragon” fell in … Burden tells the incredible true story of Michael "Mike" Burden (Garrett Hedlund), an ardent young member of the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan who rose to the rank of Grand Dragon – and walked away from all of it with the help of a new love and an unlikely ally, the African American religious leader and social activist Reverend David Kennedy (Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker). Burden focuses on Mike Burden (Hedlund, of Mudbound), a 30-something living in Laurens, South Carolina, wrapped in the warm glow of communal racism. When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a small South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy (Academy Award®-winner Forest Whitaker) resolves to do everything in his power to prevent long-simmering racial tensions from boiling over.

Hedlund stars as the real-life Mike Burden, a former Ku Klux Klan member who left the Klan thanks to the guidance of an African-American Baptist … 101 Studios has released a new trailer for Burden, one of the buzz titles at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival where the drama won the Audience Award. When we first meet Garrett Hedlund’s Mike Burden he hardly comes across as a Mensa candidate, but clearly has a good heart. Mike Burden and Reverend David Kennedy’s 24-year friendship had an unlikely beginning. Amongst those members are Michael “Mike” Burden (Garrett Hedlund) and Klan leader Tom Griffin (Tom Wilkinson). But more importantly, it points to the weight that he carries with him: the albatross of racism that hangs around his neck, the millstone of his own failed upbringing and broken soul. When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the group's Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past. The year is 1996 in small-town Laurens, S.C., and Mike Burden (Hedlund) is introduced with a group of friends doing some demolition in the Echo, the long derelict local movie house.

He works with a tight group at … With Andrea Riseborough, Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Tom Wilkinson. Burden tells the incredible true story of Michael "Mike" Burden (Garrett Hedlund), an ardent young member of the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan who rose to the rank of Grand Dragon – and walked away from all of it with the help of a new love and an unlikely ally, the African American religious leader and social activist Reverend David Kennedy (Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker). This time, the movie’s flawed hero is the real-life Mike Burden (Garrett Hedlund), an uneducated repo man in small-town South Carolina. It is, of course, Mike Burden’s last name. Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Tom Wilkinson,… Taking place in the small town of Laurens, South Carolina, in the mid-to-late 1990s, the story is told mainly from the perspective of the title character, Mike Burden (played by Garrett Hedlund), a self-described “redneck” troublemaker who was orphaned at an early age. The year is 1996, and Mike …