
Resting Place
A slow-burning, earnest drama that confronts racial injustice with quiet dignity and mounting tension, anchored by strong performances.
- Directed by
- John Korty
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- John Lithgow, Morgan Freeman, CCH Pounder
- Tagline
- Military honors knows no color
- 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.
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- Directed by
- John Korty
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- John Lithgow, Morgan Freeman, CCH Pounder












