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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1998 DVD Release: 02/23/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 28 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 6 Genres: Drama, Period Film, Family Drama

Susanna Styron made her feature directorial debut with this family drama, an adaptation of a 1978 short story by her father, novelist William Styron (Sophie's Choice). Paul Whitehurst (voice of Martin Sheen) recalls Depression-era events in Tidewater, Virginia, when he was ten years old. In the summer of 1935, lonely young Paul (Scott Terra), with his strict father (Darrell Larson) and fatally ill mother (Deborah Hedwall), 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 (Harvey Keitel) is married to earthy beer-drinking Trixie (Andie MacDowell), and Paul enjoys the fun-loving lifestyle of this couple and their seven children. Shadrach (John Franklin Sawyer), 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. Shown at the 1998 LA Independent Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

Harvey Keitel - Vernon
Andie MacDowell - Trixie
John Franklin Sawyer - Shadrach
Scott Terra - Paul
Daniel Treat - Little Mole
Monica Bugajski - Edmonia
Martin Sheen

A once flourishing tobacco plantation endures the hardships of the depression and receives a visit from a mysterious stranger in Columbia TriStar Home Video's release of Susanna Styron's Shadrach. Viewable in either 1.85:1 widescreen or 1.33:1 full-frame, closed-captioned audio is presented in English Dolby Digital Surround with an alternate French Dolby Digital Surround track and optional English, Spanish, and French subtitles. Extra features include a theatrical trailer. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide