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Wayward Son is a film released in USA on 20 september 1999 with Harry Connick
Wayward Son (1999)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 20 september 1999
Length 1h36
Rating63%
Wayward Son (1999) is an American film drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression, starring Harry Connick, Jr. and Pete Postlethwaite.
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The movie tells the story of a southern man, Jesse Banks Rhodes (Harry Connick, Jr.), who is released from a prison work camp in Louisiana, 1936, after being wrongly imprisoned for eleven years. He heads back to Georgia, only to find that most people are keen to keep him down. He begins working for a plantation owner (Walton Goggins) and rents a shed from a farmer (Pete Postlethwaite) with two daughters (Patricia Clarkson and Vinessa Shaw). After witnessing the murder of a black worker at the hands of a drunken white racist boss, Jesse is forced to prove his innocence, so injustice will not happen again.Actors
Harry Connick
(Jesse Banks Rhodes)
Pete Postlethwaite
(Ben Alexander)
Patricia Clarkson
(Wesley)
Vinessa Shaw
(Cordelia)
Walton Goggins
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