Rebel Ridge is a 2024 American crime action thriller film directed by Jeremy Saulnier from a screenplay by Jeremy Saulnier. The film premiered on the Netflix movie platform on September 6, 2024.
Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre) arrives in Shelby Springs, Louisiana, intending to post bail for his cousin Mike and purchase a pickup truck to start a business together. He brings $36,000 with him. Upon arrival, he is stopped by police officers Evan Marston (David Denman) and Steve Lan (Emory Cohen) who hit him with the patrol car and confiscated his money through civil forfeiture, even though the funds were legal.
Terry tries to file a complaint, but is met with indifference and threats from Police Chief Sandy Byrne (Don JohnsonHis only ally turns out to be the court clerk Summer McBride (AnnaSophia Robb), which reveals that the city has a systematic practice of detaining people on minor charges without access to legal assistance until the police camera recordings are deleted after 90 days.
When Mike is transferred prematurely to state prison and dies under suspicious circumstances, Terry sets out to expose the corruption in the city. With the help of Summer and Judge Logston (James Cromwell) they infiltrate the courthouse and seize the SD cards with compromising recordings. Although Summer is captured, Terri manages to escape and arranges a trade: Summer for the recordings.
During the exchange, it is revealed that the real informant is Officer Marston, who was wounded in the shootout. Terry manages to save Summer by injecting her with an antidote to the drug she was drugged with. With the help of Officer Jessica Sims (Zsane Zhe), who arrested Byrne, they managed to escape and turn over the evidence to the authorities.
