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.
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
CCH Pounder
as Priscilla
Bill Coates
as Carley
