RESTING PLACE

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• Release Year: 1986
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Plot: The mysterious death of an army officer comes under investigation; ; Nominated for two Prime Time Emmy® Awards, Resting Place is the story of one man's fight to give a soldier, killed in action, an honorable burial. Major Kendall Laird (John Lithgow, Dreamgirls), accompanying the young black lieutenant's body to his Georgia hometown, is met with opposition when the racially divided city refuses to let the soldier be buried in an all-white cemetery. As his grieving parents (Morgan Freeman, The Bucket List and C.C.H. Pounder, TV's The Shield) struggle to honor their deceased son, they become entangled in a bitter fight for not only a gravesite, but justice.
• Cast: John Lithgow, Richard Bradford, Morgan Freeman, G.D. Spradlin, CCH Pounder, Frances Sternhagen, M. Emmet Walsh, John Philbin, Brian Tarantina, Richard Brooks, Tegan West, Buck Herron, Bob Hannah, Mert Hatfield, Hugh Jarrett, Denise Mickelbury, Wallace Wilkinson, Charles Kahlenberg, Marc Clement, Elliott Street, Pamela Garmon, Joyce Leigh, Bernardine Mitchell, Sidney Lamar Payne, Thomas Di Aglio, Claude Ray James, Sherrie Diane Lewandowski, John Korty, Walter Halsey Davis, Robert Huddleston, William Wages, Bonnie Koehler, Laurel Ladevich, Paul Chihara
• Director: John Korty
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Marian Rees Associates, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), DPI, Hipervideo, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie