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An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.


This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.

Mel Harris
Kate Rule

Corbin Bernsen
Will Lee

Katherine Helmond
Emma Carr

Raymond Burr
Judge Boggs

Rod Taylor
Gen. Willoughby

John Glover
Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross

Claude Akins
Sheriff Cox

Reginald VelJohnson
Det. Mickey Henderson

James Wilder
Jerry Lomax

Herb Edelman
Manny Pearl
Grass Roots is a drama, crime, thriller, tv movie film released in 1992 exploring themes of georgia, sequel, lawyer. Directed by Jerry London, it stars Mel Harris, Corbin Bernsen, Katherine Helmond. This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.
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