Blessed Assurance (1997)
Upon his discharge following the Korean War, soldier Jerry moves back to the small town in South Carolina where he grew up. Jerry is reunited with his old flame Leslie, gets a job as an insurance salesman and begins to heal from the emotional damage caused by the war. But Jerry faces a serious moral dilemma when the job he depends on for his livelihood leads him to take advantage of an elderly African-American woman and the members of her community.
- Date of release
- 1997-08-17
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Peter Bogdanovich
Casting
- Grant Show — Jerry Shand
- Cicely Tyson — Vesta Lotte Battle
- Lori Loughlin — Leslie
- George Wendt — Sam
- Cari Shayne — Claire Gundry
- Rebecca Koon — Zella Shand
- Bob King — Juel Shand
- Allan Gurganus — Professor Title
- Stephen Michael Ayers — Don Cahoun
- Helen Alexander — White Woman in Church
- Shannon Eubanks — Mrs. Grundy
- Tommy Cresswell — Mr. Grundy
Interesting facts
The Price of Heaven is a TV movie directed by Peter Bogdanovich. It was an adaptation of Allan Gurganus's novella Blessed Assurance: A Moral Tale from the book White People.
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