Released:
1998-09-23

Overview:
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.

Director:
Susanna Styron

Runtime:
1h 28min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Harvey Keitel
  as
  Vernon
• 
  Andie MacDowell
  as
  Trixie
• 
  Martin Sheen
  as
  Narrator (voice)
• 
  John Franklin Sawyer
  as
  Shadrach
• 
  Scott Terra
  as
  Paul