

23/09/1998
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
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

Erin Underwood
as Lucinda

Muse Watson
as Captain
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