TMDb Rating
6.1/10
17 verified votes
Resting Place (1986)
Drama
100 min
"Military honors knows no color"
Plot Summary
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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Keywords to include
DramaJohn KortyJohn LithgowMorgan Freeman1986
Director
John Korty
Top Cast
John LithgowMorgan FreemanCCH PounderFrances SternhagenRichard Brooks
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