Shadrach

September. 23,1998      PG-13
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6.4
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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.

Harvey Keitel as  Vernon
Andie MacDowell as  Trixie
Martin Sheen as  Narrator (voice)
Scott Terra as  Paul
Darrell Larson as  Father
Deborah Hedwall as  Mother
Jonathan Parks Jordan as  Middle Mole
Erin Underwood as  Lucinda
Muse Watson as  Captain

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Reviews

Invaderbank
1998/09/23

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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Casey Duggan
1998/09/24

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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Jonah Abbott
1998/09/25

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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Fatma Suarez
1998/09/26

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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