Sins of The Father (2002)

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Written by John Pielmeier, Pamela Colloff

Directed by Robert Dornhelm

Running Time: 105 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 2002

Rating: 15 Certificate

Filmed in Colour

Made for TV

A man must decide if his greater loyalty is to his family or to justice in this made-for-TV movie based on a true story.

In 1963, several members of a Southern Ku Klux Klan chapter bombed an African-American church in Birmingham, AL. Four young girls died in the blast, but the police were unable to prosecute the case at the time because no one was willing to testify against the most likely suspects, or even say what they knew about them.

Tom Cherry (Tom Sizemore) is the son of Bobby Frank Cherry (Richard Jenkins), who moved from Alabama to Texas not long after the bombing. Now a grown man in middle age, Tom has known since he was a boy about his father's involvement in the Ku Klux Klan and his participation in the Birmingham church bombing, but he's never been able to bring himself to tell the police what he knows, or turn his dad over to authorities. However, when investigators re-open the case and begin asking both Tom and Bobby Frank tough questions, Tom struggles to decide what he should do, with his good friend Garrick Jones (Ving Rhames) urging him to help the authorities bring the guilty parties to justice.

Cast

Image for Tom SizemoreTom SizemoreTom Cherry
Richard JenkinsBobby Frank Cherry
Connor PriceYoung Bobby Jr.
Image for Ving RhamesVing RhamesGarrick Jones
Image for Colm FeoreColm FeoreDalton Strong
Lachlan MurdochYoung Tom
Brenda BazinetVirginia Cherry
Jackie RichardsonMama Jones
Carol AndersonWitness
Rodger BartonWitness
Ardon BessMinister at Church
Jessica Gray CharlesDenise McNair
K.C. CollinsYouth
Jane CookeWitness
Phillip CraigProsecutor
Steve CumynBobby Cherry Jr.
Bob DesrosiersMinister at Funeral
Aaryn DoyleCarole Robertson
Michelyn EmelleMrs. McNair
Delores EttienneOlder Woman at Church
Kelly FiddickMan in Street
John FriesenBill Connor
Ron GabrielDoctor
Neil GirvanState Trooper
Charles W. GrayWillie the Vagrant
Funmiola LawsonCynthia Wesley
Mica Le JohnSarah Collins
Doug LennoxJack Kash
Tim MacMenaminFireman
Tom McBeathJ. Edgar Hoover
Isys McKoyMae Collins
Andrew MoodieMan in Church
Tony MunchHerman Cash
Sonia NdongmoWoman at Riot
Ryan PriceYoung Wesley Cherry
Simon ReynoldsTroy Ingram
Michael RhoadesRobert Chambliss
Kim RobertsMrs. Wesley
Sandi RossSunday School Teacher
Ksenia SoloLucinda
Carly StreetWitness

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