Horton Foote's coming-of-age tale about a 13-year-old (Lukas Haas) working in 1902 at a plantation run by an irascible old man (Robert Duvall). Ben: James Earl Jones. Martha: Starletta DuPois. Jackson: Mel Winkler. Leroy: Calvin Levels. Asa: Carlin Glynn. Billy: Gary Swanson. Directed by Peter Masterson.