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Resting Place

1986 · 100 min · Director: John Korty ★ IMDb 6.4 · 714 ratings

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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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Resting Place (1986) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 35%, Sadness 30%, Anger 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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The strongest emotional signals are Empathy, Sadness, Anger. Genres: Drama. AI estimate.

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Cast

John Lithgow

Maj. Kendall Laird

CCH Pounder

Ada Johnson

Frances Sternhagen

Eudora McCallister

RB
Richard Brooks

Booker T. Douglas

Richard Bradford

Gen. Willard P. Hauer

GD
G. D. Spradlin

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G.D. Spradlin

Sam Jennings

JP
John Philbin

JP
John Philbin

Bradford Erskine

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Brian Tarantina

Brian Tarantina

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Details

Directed by
John Korty
Written by
Walter Halsey Davis
Type
Movies
Released
1986
Runtime
100 min
Country
United States of America
Genres
Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.4 · 714 ratings
Feels mostly
Empathy
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