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Minnie Driver will join Hilary Swank in the legal drama "Betty Anne Waters" says The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on a true story, Waters (Swank) is an unemployed single mother who saw her brother convicted for a murder-robbery in 1983 and sentenced to life in prison.

Convinced of his innocence, she spent the next decade earning a law degree and working on her brother's case, challenging the conviction with DNA evidence.

Driver plays Abra, Swank's law school friend with a wild-party past who helps her with the brother's case.

Richard Lagravenese (who worked with Swank on the romance sapper P.S. I Love You) wrote the most recent draft based on Pamela Gray's original script.

It will good to see Driver in a new high profile film role after doing the TV show The Riches...This is Swank 2nd biopic in a row having recently wrapped Amelia about famed pilot Amelia Earhart,

Tony Goldwyn is calling action when filming Betty begins next month.