Millennium Entertainment has released the first trailer for director Lee Daniels' thriller The Paperboy, an adaptation of Peter Dexter's novel. Zac Efron stars as Jack Jensen, who helps his journalist brother Ward (Matthew McConaughey) investigate a man on death row, who may be falsely accused of murder. Take a look at the first footage from this crime thriller, also starring John Cusack, Nicole Kidman, and Scott Glenn.

A directionless young man helps his reporter brother investigate the possible wrongful conviction of a man on death row, and in the process, falls for the woman whom the convict has been romancing through prison correspondence.