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
Cari Shayne
Claire Gundry
George Wendt
Sam
Rebecca Koon
Zella Shand
Peter Bogdanovich
Director
Allan Gurganus
Writer
Bob King
Juel Shand
Joyce Eliason
Writer
Stephen Michael Ayers
Don Cahoun
Jack Clements
Producer
Mark Snow
Composer
Helen Alexander
White Woman in Church
Shannon Eubanks
Mrs. Grundy
Rohn Schmidt
Cinematographer
Tommy Cresswell
Mr. Grundy
Louise Stratten
Sandy
Robby Preddy
Randa Orvilson
Michael Flannery
Cecil
Georgia Allen
Mary Irene Tatum
John Lawhorn
Easton Peel
David Dwyer
Man in Mill Town
Kate Finlayson
Woman in Mill Town
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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.