In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.
Roy T. Anderson
as James Byrd, Jr.
Jon Voight
as Billy Rowles
Louis Gossett Jr.
as R.C. Horn
Joe Morton
as Walter Diggles
Demore Barnes
as Ricky Horn
Bokeem Woodbine
as Khalid X
Matt Birman
as Beating Cop
Sandra Caldwell
as Norva
John Bayliss
as City Manager
James Bearden
as Old Sour Man (as Jim Bearden)
Samantha Bee
as Kathy
Addison Bell
as Judge
