Wayward Son

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Wayward Son
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Promotional poster
Directed byRandall Harris
Written byRandall Harris
Produced byCary Brokaw
Starring Harry Connick, Jr.
Pete Postlethwaite
Music by James Newton Howard
Steve Porcaro
Distributed byAvenue Pictures
No US distributor
Release date
  • September 14, 1999 (1999-09-14)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$7.7 million [1]

Wayward Son is a 1999 American drama film directed by Randall Harris and starring Harry Connick, Jr. and Pete Postlethwaite. The screenplay concerns justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression.

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Plot

A southern man, Jesse Banks Rhodes (Harry Connick, Jr.), 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.

Cast

Settings

Production of the film began Oct. 26, 1998 in Nashville. [2] The movie was filmed at various locations in Georgia including Mansfield and the Southeastern Railway Museum.

Trivia

Awards and nominations

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