September 23, 1998
1h 28m
EN
Susanna Styron
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.
Harvey Keitel
Vernon
Andie MacDowell
Trixie
Martin Sheen
Narrator (voice)
John Franklin Sawyer
Shadrach
Bridget Terry, Susanna Styron
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Scott Terra
Paul
Ginnie Randall
Virginia
Darrell Larson
Father
Deborah Hedwall
Mother
Daniel Treat
Little Mole
Jonathan Parks Jordan
Middle Mole
Nu Image
US
Tidewater Pictures Inc.
US
Millennium Media
US
Columbia Pictures
US
