| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Rating: | R |
| Length: | 113 min |
| Country: | USA |
| Cast: | Gene Hackman, Chris O'Donnell, Faye Dunaway |
| Credits: | Directed by James Foley |
Synopsis:A young lawyer tries in vain to have his grandfathers death sentence commuted.
Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young
attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of
two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only four weeks before Sam Cayhall is to be executed, Adam
meets his grandfather for the first time in the Mississippi prison which has held him since the crime. The
meeting is predictably tense when the educated, young Mr. "Hall" confronts his venom-spewing elder,
Mr. "Cayhall," about the murders. The next day, headlines run proclaiming Adam the grandson who has
come to the state to save his grandfather, the infamous Ku Klux Klan bomber. While the old man's life
lies in the balance, Adam's motivation in fighting this battle becomes clear as the story unfolds. Not only
does he fight for his grandfather, but perhaps for himself as well. He has come to heal the wounds of his
own father's suicide, to mitigate the secret shame he has always felt for the genetic fluke which made this
man his grandfather, and to bring closure -- one way or another -- to the suffering the old man seems to
have brought to everyone he has ever known. But, would mercy soften his grandfather's heart?
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