The Summer of Ben Tyler Movie Review 1996

Temple Rayburn (Woods) is an up-and-coming lawyer in a small southern town in 1942 and the protege of influential Spencer Maitland (Cariou). Before his family's black housekeeper dies, Rayburn agrees to take in her mentally handicapped teenaged son, Ben (Mattocks), to the dismay of the white community. Then Maitland insists Rayburn defend his son Junius (Isola) against a drunk driving charge where a woman was killed. TV movie.

Distribution

Hallmark Home Entertainment, 6100 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 1400, Los Angeles, CA 90048, Phone: (213)634-3000, Fax: (213)549-3760, Remarks: Lainie Handelman, Mktg.

Available on VHS
Running time 134 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

American South, Period Piece: 1940s, Law & Lawyers, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Justice Prevails...?

Screenplay

Robert Inman

Cast

James Woods, Len Cariou, Elizabeth McGovern, Charles Mattocks, Kevin Isola, Julia McIlvaine, Clifton James

Cinematography

Neil Roach

Director

Arthur Allan Seidelman

Music

Van Dyke Parks

Other

Judith Ivey

Producer

Richard Welsh, Hallmark Hall of Fame