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Resting Place

Resting Place

1986 · Movie · 1h 40m · PG

Synopsis

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.

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SourceRatingWeight
IMDb6.4/1071%
TMDB6.3/1018 votes29%
Balasaur Score64100%

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