Wayward Son


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.

Plot

A southern man, Jesse Banks Rhodes, 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 and rents a shed from a farmer with two daughters. 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

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

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