This top-drawer, made-for-TV docudrama exhumes a deplorable Civil Rights-era event and chronicles a 30-year crusade for justice. His childhood memories clouded by time, Tom Cherry (Tom Sizemore) travels to Texas to care for his aged father, Bobby Frank Cherry (Richard Jenkins). A prime suspect in the notorious Atlanta church bombing that killed four little girls in 1963, racist Bobby Frank beat the rap; by the he left Birmingham, J. Edgar Hoover had pulled the plug on the investigation. The intensive detective work of Agent Dalton Strong (Colm Feore) couldn't nail klansman Frank or his co-conspirators, in part because the young Tom Cherry (Lachlan Murdoch) testified...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins