A Gathering of Old Men (1987)

Directors

Volker Schlöndorff

Cast

Louis Gossett jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter, Adam Storke

The story

A bigoted white farmer is shot in self-defense on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation. A group of old black men come forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing. As the sheriff confronts the suspects, the young plantation owner stands firm in her defense of the old men.

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