Liz Here Now (2026)
Director: Sterling Macer Jr. · Writers: Sterling Macer Jr., Grant Nieporte, Caleb G. Brown
Liz Baxter, who works as a nanny for a prominent, has a white family in Oakland, California, during the rise of the Black Panther Party in 1967. When Liz discovers that the Connor children are suffering under the hand of their mother, Jane, and attempts to step in to protect the children, she’s accused of participating in a Black Panther conspiracy.
Director
Sterling Macer Jr.
Cast
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Liz Baxter 
Rachelle Lefevre
Jane 
Caisey Cole
Debra Baxter 
D.J. Stroud
Patrick Walker
Nelson Seldridge 
Ryan Wesley Gilreath
Brady Wagner
Cedric Mays
Clayman Baxter
Patrick Newson Jr.
Troy Baxter 
Aniela Zeig
User Reviews (1)
It’s been said that no good deed goes unpunished, and that insightful aphorism would appear to be multiplied many times over in this new fact-based domestic drama from director Sterling Macer Jr. In 1967 Oakland, hard-working housekeeper and child care provider Elizabeth “Liz” Baxter (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) underwent more than her share of tragedies and challenges. First, she lost her son-in-law to a shooting incident, and then she and her neighbors faced the threat of gentrification, along with the prospect of forced displacement. Moreover, at the same time, the civil rights movement was headed toward a boiling point, and nowhere was this more apparent than in her own backyard, where the Black Panther movement was rising to prominence and targeted as a violent threat by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. But Liz tried to make the best of these circumstances by dutifully doing her job a…
