Resting Place

Year: 1986

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: English

Director: John Korty

Drama

Set in 1972 Rockville, Georgia, Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Black Vietnam hero, to help his grieving parents arrange a burial. The town’s all‑white cemetery, guarded by white racists, refuses them, exposing the stark racism that even military honor cannot erase.

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