A House Divided

HD 0.8 101 min.

In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.

Genre: Drama

Release: July 30, 2000

Director: John Kent Harrison

Cast: Sam Waterston, Jennifer Beals, LisaGay Hamilton, Tim Daly, Shirley Douglas, Sean McCann, Ron White, Colin Fox, Adrian Hough, Alison Sealy-Smith, Gerard Parkes, Dara Perlmutter, Kayla Perlmutter, Omar McIntosh, Troy Seivwright-Adams, Karen Kennedy, Craig Eldridge, Ron Payne, Barry Stillwell, Paul Essiembre, Joey Naber, Johann Benét, Matt Granger