Night Catches Us — is playing in art-house theaters now.
The film is set in mid-'70s Philadelphia, and Mackie's character — a former Black Panther — is suspected by everyone in his splintered Philadelphia neighborhood of being a snitch for the FBI. The actor was drawn to this tiny, low-budget movie because it explores a moment in black history that's been neglected by Hollywood . And he loved its richly regretful main character — Marcus, a onetime revolutionary disillusioned by the Panthers' collapse.