Movie

Shadrach

★ 6/10 · 20 votes 1998 1h 28m Released

Drama

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.

Cast

Harvey Keitel Vernon Andie MacDowell Trixie Martin Sheen Narrator (voice) J John Franklin Sawyer Shadrach Scott Terra Paul G Ginnie Randall Virginia