Overview
Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threatened by the Holts, the first family of the town, after she refuses to sell her valuable land.
Cast
- Scott Glenn as Willie Croft
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Whitsey Loftin
- Bette Davis as Hannah Loftin
- John Randolph as Augustus Tompkins
- Ron O'Neal as Daniel Backus
- Bruce McGill as V.D. Skinner
- Richard Venture as Brevard Holt
- John McIntire as Judge Dudley McCormack
- Beah Richards as Elvira Backus
- Penny Fuller as Marci Holt