In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.
Cast
Sam Waterston
David Dickson
Jennifer Beals
Amanda Dickson
LisaGay Hamilton
Julia
Tim Daly
Charles Dubose
Shirley Douglas
Elizabeth Dickson
Sean McCann
Rutherford
Ron White
Henry Dickson
Colin Fox
Doctor Lovick
Adrian Hough
Lt. Brooks
Alison Sealy-Smith
Ruth
Gerard Parkes
Judge Stevens
Dara Perlmutter
Amanda (age 10)
Kayla Perlmutter
Amanda (age 5)
Omar McIntosh
Young Boy
Troy Seivwright-Adams
Silvester
Karen Kennedy
Matron
Craig Eldridge
Judge Cottner
Ron Payne
Jury Foreman
Barry Stillwell
Court Clerk
Paul Essiembre
Hotel Clerk
Joey Naber
Unknown
Johann Benét
Joshua (uncredited)
Matt Granger
Henry's Son (uncredited)
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