Released:
2000-07-30

Overview:
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.

Director:
John Kent Harrison

Runtime:
1h 41min

Genre:
Drama, TV Movie

• Cast:
• 
  Sam Waterston
  as
  David Dickson
• 
  Jennifer Beals
  as
  Amanda Dickson
• 
  LisaGay Hamilton
  as
  Julia
• 
  Tim Daly
  as
  Charles Dubose
• 
  Shirley Douglas
  as
  Elizabeth Dickson