Blessed Assurance (1997)
2h
Running Time
August 17, 1997Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

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 / Novel

Stephen Michael Ayers
Don Cahoun

Helen Alexander
White Woman in Church

Shannon Eubanks
Mrs. Grundy

Tommy Cresswell
Mr. Grundy

Louise Stratten
Sandy

Robby Preddy
Randa Orvilson

Michael Flannery
Cecil

Jack Clements
Producer

Georgia Allen
Mary Irene Tatum

John Lawhorn
Easton Peel

David Dwyer
Man in Mill Town

Kate Finlayson
Woman in Mill Town

Bart Hansard
Buddy

Judy Simpson
Registrar

Brinley McClary
Minna

Antonia Bogdanovich
Verla

Lynn Llewelyn
Young Mother

Deborah Duke
Black Woman in Church

Michelle Benjamin Cooper
Cassandra

Mark Snow
Music

K-Bobby
Hairstylist

Rohn Schmidt
Director of Photography

Joyce Eliason
Screenplay

David Siegel
Editor
Media.

Details.
Wiki.
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.