Resting Place (1986)

Directors

John Korty

Cast

John Lithgow

The story

In 1972, Major Kendall Laird as a Survivors Assistance officer, is charged with helping the families of soldiers killed in action for as long as he may be needed. He is escorting the remains of Dwight Johnson, an Army Lieutenant, for delivering them to his parents Luther and Ada at Rockville, Georgia, which he estimates will be a short duty, and one in which he will have nothing really helpful to do. The funeral is prevented from taking place because, despite desegregation being legally in effect for many years, the town still is deeply segregationist, and its authorities refuse the deceased to be interred in the local "for caucasians…

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