A Stoning in Fulham County

A Stoning in Fulham County is a 1988 television film directed by Larry Elikann. It takes place in fictional Fulham County, North Carolina.[1] It is based on the true story of the murder of an Amish baby by a group of reckless teens in Indiana in 1979.[2]

A Stoning in Fulham County
Directed byLarry Elikann
ComposerDon Davis
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersJoan Barnett
Alan Landsburg
Howard Lipstone
ProducersMichael Criscuolo
Jud Kinberg
Don Goldman (associate producer)
Production locationsStatesville, North Carolina
Mooresville, North Carolina
CinematographyLaszlo George
EditorPeter V. White
Running time94 minutes
Production companyThe Landsburg Company
DistributorNBC
Release
Original networkNBC
Picture formatColor
Audio formatMono
Original release
  • October 24, 1988 (1988-10-24)

Plot

An Amish family is returning home from a gathering when a group of reckless local teens drives past them in a red pickup truck shouting insults and throwing rocks. A rock hits the seven-month-old baby of the family, causing family patriarch Jacob (Ron Perlman) to borrow a nearby neighbor's phone to call for an ambulance. The baby dies, and county prosecutor Jim Sandler (Ken Olin) decides to investigate and prosecute for reckless homicide.

To his frustration, he finds that the Amish family takes Biblical commandments to "turn the other cheek" and that "vengeance belongs to the Lord" literally and as forbidding to help civil authorities punish those who hurt them. Therefore, the prosecutor must work to persuade them to speak up about what happened so that future harassment and aggression against the Amish community will cease.

Cast

References
  1. Hal Erickson. "A Stoning in Fulham County (1960) - Larry Elikann - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  2. "A Stoning in Fulham County". TV.com. Retrieved 9 November 2020.


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