ET is bringing you the scoop on Alfre Woodard's new movie.

Academy Award® nominee Woodard plays the mother of critically acclaimed newcomer Nicole Beharie in her new movie, 'American Violet.' The film is based on true events in the midst of the 2000 election in a small town in Texas. Dee Roberts, (Beharie) with her freedom and the custody of her children at stake, chooses to fight the district attorney and the unyielding criminal justice system he represents after her housing project is the victim of an extensive drug raid carried out with military precision. Joined in an unlikely alliance with an ACLU attorney (Tim Blake Nelson) and a former local narcotics officer (Will Patton), Dee risks everything in a battle that forever changes her life and the Texas justice system. 'American Violet' also stars Emmy Award® winner Charles S. Dutton and Xzibit.

Dee, a 24 year-old African American single mother of four young girls, who is barely making ends meet on a waitress salary and government subsidies, is arrested on an early November morning while she works a shift at the local diner. Police drag Dee from work in handcuffs, dumping her in the squalor of the women's county prison. Indicted based on the uncorroborated word of a single and dubious police informant facing his own drug charges, Dee soon discovers she has been charged as a drug dealer. Even though Dee has no prior drug record and no drugs were found on her in the raid or any subsequent searches, she is offered a hellish choice: plead guilty and go home as a convicted felon or remain in prison and fight the charges, thus jeopardizing her custody of her children and risking a long prison sentence.

Also featured in the movie is music from husband-and-wife duo TANIQ. Their single, "Breakin' the Rules," (also known as "Forgot It Was Wrong") can be heard in one of the movie's riveting scenes. For more information on Taniq, visit www.myspace.com/taniq.

'American Violet' opens in select theaters on April 17. For more information visit: www.americanviolet.com/.