"Shadrach" Starring Scott Terra and Daniel Treat
"Shadrach [http://www.bluecowboyfilms.com/shadrach.htm]" is a coming-of-age film that deals with changing times and the people it effects. It is 1935 and a black man, a former slave, who is now 99 years old has returned to his birthplace to be buried next to his family. The family who now lives on the property is willing to help, but the local sheriff is determined that the man will be buried according to law. Which means in the local "colored" cemetery by the local "colored" undertaker.
Prior to Shadrach coming to make his request to the family, a young boy about ten years old has come to stay the summer with them. The boy, Paul (Scott Terra), and the family's son, Little Mole (Daniel Treat) become fast friends and spend the summer playing, swimming, and growing up.
While the adults in the family spend their time worrying about surviving the depression, and keeping the prying eyes of the sheriff away from their still, the boys become intrigued by the mysterious black visitor. What little information the soft spoken man gives them only increases their curiosity. While the adults come up with all the wrong assumptions as to exactly why Shadrach walked 600 miles just to be buried on the property where he grew up, the boys are able to figure it out.
As he talks to the boys, and observes their play, it soon becomes obvious to them that he isn't here to die and be buried, but rather to relive his childhood. Even though he knows the end is near, and that things will never be the same, he is in a way able to relive his own childhood through his observations of his two new young friends.
This is a superb film about boyhood and growing up with outstanding performances by the two young actors. A film most certainly worth watching.
Prior to Shadrach coming to make his request to the family, a young boy about ten years old has come to stay the summer with them. The boy, Paul (Scott Terra), and the family's son, Little Mole (Daniel Treat) become fast friends and spend the summer playing, swimming, and growing up.
While the adults in the family spend their time worrying about surviving the depression, and keeping the prying eyes of the sheriff away from their still, the boys become intrigued by the mysterious black visitor. What little information the soft spoken man gives them only increases their curiosity. While the adults come up with all the wrong assumptions as to exactly why Shadrach walked 600 miles just to be buried on the property where he grew up, the boys are able to figure it out.
As he talks to the boys, and observes their play, it soon becomes obvious to them that he isn't here to die and be buried, but rather to relive his childhood. Even though he knows the end is near, and that things will never be the same, he is in a way able to relive his own childhood through his observations of his two new young friends.
This is a superb film about boyhood and growing up with outstanding performances by the two young actors. A film most certainly worth watching.