A group of elderly Black men on a Louisiana plantation gather to claim responsibility for the murder of a violent white farmer to protect the young Black man who actually killed him.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Mathu
Richard Widmark
Sheriff Mapes
Holly Hunter
Candy Marshall
Will Patton
Lou Dimes
Joe Seneca
Clatoo
Woody Strode
Yank
Tiger Haynes
Booker
Papa John Creach
Jacob
Julius Harris
Coot
Rosanna Carter
Beulah
Walter Breaux
Charlie
Joe 'Flash' Riley
Jameson
