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As Summers Die

  • Drama
  • TV Movie

May 18, 1986 (US)

1h 27m

Scott Glenn, Jamie Lee Curtis and Bette Davis Shine in a Powerful Drama!

Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threatened by the Holts, the first family of the town, after she refuses to sell her valuable land.

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