The Heart of Dixie

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The Heart of Dixie ★★ 1989 (PG)

Three college co-eds at a southern university in the 1950s see their lives and values change with the influence of the civil rights movement. College newspaper reporter Sheedy takes up the cause of a black man victimized by racial violence. Lightweight social-conscience fare. 96m/C VHS, DVD . Virginia Madsen, Ally Sheedy, Phoebe Cates, Treat Williams, Kyle Secor, Francesca Roberts, Barbara Babcock, Don Michael Paul, Kurtwood Smith, Richard Bradford; D: Martin Davidson; W: Tom McCown; C: Robert Elswit; M: Kenny Vance.

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