A House Divided
movie

Released July 30, 2000
Overview
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.
Cast

Sam Waterston
as
David Dickson

Jennifer Beals
as
Amanda Dickson

LisaGay Hamilton
as
Julia

Tim Daly
as
Charles Dubose

Shirley Douglas
as
Elizabeth Dickson

Sean McCann
as
Rutherford

Ron White
as
Henry Dickson

Colin Fox
as
Doctor Lovick

Adrian Hough
as
Lt. Brooks

Alison Sealy-Smith
as
Ruth

Gerard Parkes
as
Judge Stevens
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Dara Perlmutter
as
Amanda (age 10)