A Soldier's Play (2021)
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.
- Released
- 2021-02-25
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kenny Leon
Cast
- David Alan Grier as Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
- Blair Underwood as Captain Richard Davenport
- Nnamdi Asomugha as Private First Class Melvin Peterson
- Jerry O'Connell as Captain Charles Taylor
- Rob Demery as Corporal Bernard Cobb
- Warner Miller as Corporal Ellis
- McKinley Belcher III as Private Louis Henson
- Billy Eugene Jones as Private James Wilkie
- Jared Grimes as Private Tony Smalls
- J. Alphonse Nicholson as Private C.J. Memphis
- Nate Mann as Lietuenant Byrd
- Lee Aaron Rosen as Captain Wilcox