The read
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes50%
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
20 audience votes
Key crew
- Susanna StyronDirector
- Susanna StyronWriter
- Bridget TerryWriter
- Van Dyke ParksOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Harvey KeitelVernon
- Andie MacDowellTrixie
- Martin SheenNarrator (voice)
- John Franklin SawyerShadrach
- Scott TerraPaul
- Ginnie RandallVirginia
- Darrell LarsonFather
- Deborah HedwallMother
- Daniel TreatLittle Mole
- Jonathan Parks JordanMiddle Mole
- Erin UnderwoodLucinda
- Muse WatsonCaptain
Stills
Themes
slaveryracial segregationslavevirginiawoman director