Movie

Blessed Assurance (1997)

• August 17, 1997
• 1h 32m

• Drama
• TV Movie

Overview

Upon his discharge following the Korean War, soldier Jerry moves back to the small town in South Carolina where he grew up. Jerry is reunited with his old flame Leslie, gets a job as an insurance salesman and begins to heal from the emotional damage caused by the war. But Jerry faces a serious moral dilemma when the job he depends on for his livelihood leads him to take advantage of an elderly African-American woman and the members of her community.

Director

Peter Bogdanovich

Writers

Allan Gurganus, Joyce Eliason

Starring

Grant Show, Cicely Tyson, Lori Loughlin