Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
Chris O'Donnell
as Adam Hall
Gene Hackman
as Sam Cayhall
Faye Dunaway
as Lee Cayhall Bowen
Robert Prosky
as E. Garner Goodman
Lela Rochon
as Nora Stark
Bo Jackson
as Sgt. Clyde Packer
Millie Perkins
as Ruth Kramer
David Marshall Grant
as Gov. David McAllister
Raymond J. Barry
as Rollie Wedge
Nicholas Pryor
as Judge Flynn F. Slattery
Richard Bradford
as Wyn Lettner
Harve Presnell
as Attorney General Roxburgh
