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In "Shadrach,'' a 101-year-old former slave completes a long trek in order to return to the plantation where he was born and wants to be buried. In "Beloved,'' a mother kills her children rather than have them returned to the plantation from which she has escaped.
50% Tomatometer 16 Reviews 62% Audience Score 250+ Ratings A middle-class child observes a poor family's (Harvey Keitel, Andie MacDowell) life and a former slave's (John Franklin Sawyer) request...
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- Susanna Styron
- PG-13
- Harvey Keitel
In films like "The Grass Harp" and today's arrival, "Shadrach," a generation raised in prosperity turns to a difficult past, suffuses it with a romantic glow and gazes with something like envy...
Shadrach is a 1998 American film directed by Susanna Styron, based on a short story by her father William Styron, about a former slave's struggle to be buried where he chooses.
Shadrach, a former slave who was sold south by Dabney's grandfather around 1860, just before the war, shows up at the Dabney's Wilmington NC house, having walked there from Alabama. He wants to be buried on Dabney land. The story takes place about 1935, making Shadrach close to 90 years old. The Dabneys honor Shadrach's wishes because they have to.
Sep 23, 1998 · In 1935, ninety-nine-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.
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Apr 20, 1998 · Susanna Styron, daughter of writer William Styron, makes an unexciting feature directorial debut with “Shadrach,” an adaptation of her father’s 1978 short story.
