Wayward Son

For other uses, see Wayward Son (disambiguation).
Wayward Son

Promotional poster
Directed by Randall Harris
Produced by Cary Brokaw
Written by Randall Harris
Starring Harry Connick, Jr.,
Pete Postlethwaite
Music by James Newton Howard,
Steve Porcaro
Distributed by Avenue Pictures
No US distributor
Release dates
  • September 14, 1999 (1999-09-14)
Running time
96 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $7.7 million

Wayward Son is a 1999 American film drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression, starring Harry Connick, Jr. and Pete Postlethwaite.

Plot

The movie tells the story of a southern man, Jesse Banks Rhodes (Harry Connick, Jr.), who 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 (Walton Goggins) and rents a shed from a farmer (Pete Postlethwaite) with two daughters (Patricia Clarkson and Vinessa Shaw). 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.

Settings

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.

Cast

Trivia

Awards and nominations

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