Convicts
Freedom has its price.
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- Drama
Overview
In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation and depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace. However, Soll is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. On Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise... forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.
Keywords
- plantation
- racism
- plantation owner
- based on true story
- teenage boy
- based on play or musical
- 1900s
- dead father
- labor
- confederate
- semi-biographical
- rural texas
- convicts
- adapted from a play
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1991
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Cast
- Gary Swanson,Carlin Glynn,Starletta DuPois,Calvin Levels,Robert Duvall,Lukas Haas,James Earl Jones
- Director
- Peter Masterson
- Writer
- Horton Foote
- Cinematography
- Toyomichi Kurita
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0099300