Directed by:
Volker SchlöndorffScreenplay:
Charles FullerCinematography:
Edward LachmanCast:
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Woody Strode, Will Patton, Lenore Banks, Adam Storke, Holly Hunter, Joe Seneca, Julius Harris, Carol Sutton (more)Plots(1)
Racial intolerance grows as thick as Spanish moss on a Louisiana bayou tree in this tale adapted from Ernest J. Gaines's novel. After a tenant farmer is killed, black sharecropper Mathu (Louis Gossett Jr.) is accused of his death. Sympathetic plantation owner Candy (Holly Hunter) tries to protect Mathu from a lynch mob, and when the sheriff (Richard Widmark) arrives, Mathu's elderly associates confess to the killing to save their good friend. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Louis Gossett Jr.](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/405/164405843_318767.jpg)
Louis Gossett Jr.
USA
Best movies:
Roots (1977) (series)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
The White Dawn (1974)
![Richard Widmark](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/606/165606299_296b61.jpg)
Richard Widmark
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Night and the City (1950)
![Woody Strode](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/805/165805044_804905.jpg)
Woody Strode
USA
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Spartacus (1960)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
![Will Patton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267419_169511.jpg)
Will Patton
USA
Best movies:
Into the West (2005) (series)
In the Soup (1992)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Lenore Banks
Best movies:
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Lolita (1997)
Passion Fish (1992)
![Adam Storke](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274889_cf7a08.jpg)
Adam Storke
USA
Best movies:
Prey (1998) (series)
The Phantom of the Opera (1990) (TV movie)
Rough Riders (1997) (TV movie)
![Holly Hunter](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/104/166104488_3da54d.jpg)
Holly Hunter
USA
Best movies:
The Incredibles (2004)
The Piano (1993)
The Comey Rule (2020) (series)
![Joe Seneca](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/033/879/33879994_962a10.jpg)
Joe Seneca
USA
Best movies:
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
A Time to Kill (1996)
Crossroads (1986)
![Julius Harris](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/066/037/66037453_38efe5.jpg)
Julius Harris
USA
Best movies:
The Blue and the Gray (1982) (series)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Let's Do It Again (1975)
![Carol Sutton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/335/160335069_e23222.jpg)
Carol Sutton
USA
Stocker Fontelieu
USA
Best movies:
Angel Heart (1987)
Glory Road (2006)
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Howard 'Sandman' Sims
USA
Best movies:
The Cotton Club (1984)
A Gathering of Old Men (1987) (TV movie)
Harlem Nights (1989)
Tiger Haynes
Best movies:
Awakenings (1990)
All That Jazz (1979)
Jungle Fever (1991)
Eliott Keener
USA
Best movies:
Down by Law (1986)
Angel Heart (1987)
A Gathering of Old Men (1987) (TV movie)