Shadrach

Sep 23, 1998

1h 28m

★ 6.0

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Nu Image

Tidewater Pictures Inc.

Millennium Media

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Vernon

Harvey Keitel

Trixie

Andie MacDowell

Narrator (voice)

Martin Sheen

Shadrach

John Franklin Sawyer

Paul

Scott Terra

Virginia

Ginnie Randall

Father

Darrell Larson

Mother

Deborah Hedwall

Little Mole

Daniel Treat

Middle Mole

Jonathan Parks Jordan

Lucinda

Erin Underwood

Captain

Muse Watson

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