Shadrach (1998) (original) (raw)
Paul Whitehurst recalls Depression-era events in Tidewater, Virginia, when he was ten years old. In the summer of 1935, lonely young Paul, with his strict father and fatally ill mother, is raised in a boring, middle-class way of life, so mundane it leads him into a friendship with the lower-class Dabneys, once aristocratic but now reduced to poverty on the former Dabney plantation. Bootlegger Vernon is married to earthy beer-drinking Trixie, and Paul enjoys the fun-loving lifestyle of this couple and their seven children. Shadrach, a 99-year-old former slave, turns up one day at the Dabney ...(more)
Paul Whitehurst recalls Depression-era events in Tidewater, Virginia, when he was ten years old. In the summer of 1935, lonely young Paul, with his strict father and fatally ill mother, is raised in a boring, middle-class way of life, so mundane it leads him into a friendship with the lower-class Dabneys, once aristocratic but now reduced to poverty on the former Dabney plantation. Bootlegger Vernon is married to earthy beer-drinking Trixie, and Paul enjoys the fun-loving lifestyle of this couple and their seven children. Shadrach, a 99-year-old former slave, turns up one day at the Dabney house after walking barefoot from Alabama to Virginia, where he was born into slavery. Since Shadrach's wish to be buried on the Dabney's land violates Virginia law, the request sets a variety of racist attitudes and conflicts into motion. (less)
Director: Susanna Styron
Writers: Susanna Styron, Bridget Terry
Starring: Scott Terra, Darrell Larson, Andie MacDowell, Muse Watson, Harvey Keitel, Edward Bunker
Narrator: Martin Sheen
Producers: Boaz Davidson, John Thompson
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