The film stars Aaron Pierre as Terry Richmond, a former Marine who has the funds needed to post bail for his cousin unjustly seized via civil forfeiture by a small town's corrupt police force.

Don Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, David Denman, Emory Cohen, Steve Zissis, Zsané Jhé, Dana Lee, and James Cromwell also appear in the film.

Terry Richmond, a Marine veteran, cycles into Shelby Springs, Louisiana to post bail for his cousin Mike Simmons and buy a pickup truck to make them an honest living.

When courthouse clerk Elliot refuses to help, fellow employee Summer McBride promises to prepare the paperwork in case Terry can pay Mike's $10,000 bail before his Thursday transfer to state prison, where he would be in danger for informing on a gangster.

A close quarters combat expert, he subdues Lann and Burnne, and forces Sims to hand over the bail money and help him escape.

Terry is taken to a hospital by Marston and Burnne, who explains that Mike was stabbed after arriving at prison, and offers the remaining $26,000, the truck he was going to buy, and to not pursue charges if he leaves town.

As Terry leaves town, Lann flags him down, throws a gun into his truck as a pretense to open fire, and wounds him in the shoulder.

People are held on misdemeanors without access to public defenders to seek production of their police dashcam arrest footage, which expires after 90 days.

Terry and Summer break into the courthouse basement and retrieve the dashcam SD cards as police arrive and start a fire.

Terry recruits Sims, who he believes is Summer's informant in the police department codenamed Serpico, to assist him but she instead detains him as the cops return.

The website's consensus reads: "An intelligent and gripping vehicle for Aaron Pierre's star-making performance, Rebel Ridge lays down the law on its action-thriller contemporaries.