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A House Divided (2000)

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Rated: R

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Post Civil War drama that finds Amanda America Dixon (Beals) returning to her southern plantation home to discover that she is the sole inheritor to a vast cotton empire. Soon, however, she... Post Civil War drama that finds Amanda America Dixon (Beals) returning to her southern plantation home to discover that she is the sole inheritor to a vast cotton empire. Soon, however, she stumbles upon a revelatory secret - though she was raised by her father and grandmother to be the toast of white society, she is actually the daughter of a black slave who was her father's lover. It's only a matter of time before she must confront the racism and bigotry running rampant at the time. [More]

Starring: Sam Waterston, Jennifer Beals, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Tim Daly

Starring: Sam Waterston, Jennifer Beals, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Tim Daly, Shirley Douglas

Director: John Kent Harrison

Director: John Kent Harrison
Screenwriter: Paris H. Qualles

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