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Resting Place (1986)
Directed by John Korty
Overview
A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It’s Laird’s job to help Johnson’s parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town’s “all-white” cemetery.
Rated PG | Length 100 minutes
Actors
John Lithgow | Morgan Freeman | CCH Pounder | Frances Sternhagen | Richard Brooks | Richard Bradford | G. D. Spradlin | M. Emmet Walsh | John Philbin | Brian Tarantina