Miss Evers' Boys is a 1997 HBO television film starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment. It was directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted from the 1992 stage play written by David Feldshuh. The film was nominated for eleven Emmy Awards and won in four categories, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie. The film tells the story of the Tuskegee experiment, a U.S. Federal Government secret medical experiment on poor African Americans in the years 1932-1972, designed to study the effects of untreated syphilis. The story... is told from the perspective of the small town nurse Eunice Evers who is well aware of the lack of treatment, but feels her role is to console the involved men, many of whom are her direct friends.
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| Release date: | February 22, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Joseph Sargent |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Editor: | Michael Brown |
| Music by: | Charles Bernstein |
| Screenplay by: | Walter Bernstein |