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Grass Roots
Grass Roots

Grass Roots

February 24, 1992
2h 35m
Drama
Crime
Thriller
TV Movie
Critics
85/100
Story
82/100
Acting
88/100
Cinematography
90/100
Soundtrack
80/100

This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.

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Details

Director
Jerry London
Cast
Mel Harris, Corbin Bernsen, Katherine Helmond, Raymond Burr, Rod Taylor, John Glover, Claude Akins, Reginald VelJohnson, James Wilder, Herb Edelman
Release Date
February 24, 1992
Production
Team Cherokee Productions, J.B.S. Productions, Spelling Entertainment

Rating Distribution

User Ratings

5 Stars65%
1235
4 Stars25%
475
3 Stars8%
152
2 Stars2%
38
1 Stars0%
0
Total: 1,900 ratings

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