Plot
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.
Cast
Harvey Keitel
as Vernon
Andie MacDowell
as Trixie
Martin Sheen
as Narrator (voice)
John Franklin Sawyer
as Shadrach
Scott Terra
as Paul
Ginnie Randall
as Virginia
Darrell Larson
as Father
Deborah Hedwall
as Mother
Daniel Treat
as Little Mole
Jonathan Parks Jordan
as Middle Mole
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