A Stoning in Fulham County

*A Stoning in Fulham County*
A Stoning in Fulham County
Written by	Jackson Gillis; Jud Kinberg
Directed by	Larry Elikann
Composer	Don Davis
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Joan Barnett; Alan Landsburg; Howard Lipstone
Producers	Michael Criscuolo; Jud Kinberg
Production locations	Statesville, North Carolina; Mooresville, North Carolina
Cinematography	Laszlo George
Editor	Peter V. White
Running time	94 minutes
Production company	The Landsburg Company
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	October 24, 1988

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]

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. They shout insults and throw rocks at the family. 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

Ron Perlman as Jacob Shuler
Ken Olin as Jim Sandler
Jill Eikenberry as Susan
Gregg Henry as Sheriff Woodman
Nicholas Pryor as Baxter
Brad Pitt as Teddy Johnson
Michael Criscuolo as Philip Carr

References

^ Hal Erickson. "A Stoning in Fulham County (1960) - Larry Elikann - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
^ Swartz, Simon (March 1981). "Death of an Amish Child" (PDF). Liberty. North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. p. 3. Retrieved 11 October 2022.

External links

A Stoning in Fulham County at IMDb

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[1] Hal Erickson. "A Stoning in Fulham County (1960) - Larry Elikann - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 16 June 2015.

[2] Swartz, Simon (March 1981). "Death of an Amish Child" (PDF). Liberty. North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. p. 3. Retrieved 11 October 2022.

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