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Grass Roots (1992)
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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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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Genre:Drama, Crime, Thriller, TV Movie
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In Theaters:2/24/1992
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Runtime:155 minutes
Studio:Team Cherokee Productions, J.B.S. Productions, Spelling Entertainment
Cast
Jerry London
Director
Mel Harris
Kate Rule
Corbin Bernsen
Will Lee
Katherine Helmond
Emma Carr
Raymond Burr
Judge Boggs
Rod Taylor
Gen. Willoughby
John Glover
Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross
Claude Akins
Sheriff Cox
Reginald VelJohnson
Det. Mickey Henderson
James Wilder
Jerry Lomax
Herb Edelman
Manny Pearl
Henry Jones
Sen. Ben Carr
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