Overview

A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.

Details

Genres

Drama

Language

EN

Release Date

1986-04-27

Runtime

100 min

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Cast

John Lithgow

Morgan Freeman

CCH Pounder

Frances Sternhagen

Richard Brooks

Richard Bradford

G. D. Spradlin

M. Emmet Walsh

John Philbin

Brian Tarantina