Shadrach

Shadrach

88 mins | Drama | Sept. 23, 1998

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.

Shadrach

88 mins | Drama | Sept. 23, 1998

Shadrach
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.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Nu Image, Millennium Films, Tidewater Pictures Inc.
Original title Shadrach
Directors Lexie Longstreet, Susanna Styron
Writers William Styron, Bridget Terry, Susanna Styron

Cast

Harvey Keitel

as Vernon

Andie MacDowell

as Trixie

Martin Sheen

as Narrator (voice)

John Franklin Sawyer

as Shadrach

Scott Terra

as Paul

Ginnie Randall

as Virginia

Darrell Larson

as Father

Deborah Hedwall

as Mother

Daniel Treat

as Little Mole

Jonathan Parks Jordan

as Middle Mole

Erin Underwood

as Lucinda

Muse Watson

as Captain