The Burial is an upcoming American legal drama film directed by Maggie Betts and written by Betts and Doug Wright. It is based on the true story of lawyer Willie E. Gary and his client Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe's lawsuit against the Loewen funeral company, as documented in the 1999 New Yorker article of the same name by Jonathan Harr. It stars Jamie Foxx as Gary, Tommy Lee Jones as O'Keefe, Jurnee Smollett, Mamoudou Athie, and Bill Camp.
It is scheduled to premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2023, and is scheduled to be released by Amazon Studios in a limited release on October 6, 2023, prior to streaming via Prime Video on October 13, 2023. Watch the official trailer below.