Movie

A Soldier's Play

20211h 41m

Overview

In a segregated army camp in Louisiana in 1944, a black sergeant is shot dead after crying out "they still hate you." As the play examines the murder, the truth of it becomes more shocking and hateful than the murder itself.

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Cast

Jerry O'Connell
as Captain Charles Taylor

David Alan Grier
as Sergeant Vernon C. Waters

McKinley Belcher III
as Private Louis Henson

Blair Underwood
as Captain Richard Davenport

Nate Mann
as Lietuenant Byrd

J. Alphonse Nicholson
as Private C.J. Memphis

Nnamdi Asomugha
as Private First Class Melvin Peterson

Lee Aaron Rosen
as Captain Wilcox

Warner Miller
as Corporal Ellis

Jared Grimes
as Private Tony Smalls

Rob Demery
as Corporal Bernard Cobb

Billy Eugene Jones
as Private James Wilkie