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The Color of Friendship (2000)
Directed by Kevin Hooks
Overview
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums’ house, she doesn’t expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
Rated PG | Length 83 minutes
Actors
Carl Lumbly | Penny Johnson | Shadia Simmons | Anthony Burnett | Travis Kyle Davis | Lindsey Haun | Susan Danford | Melanie Nicholls-King | Michael Kanev | Stephen Jennings | Ahmad Stoner | Ryan Cooley | David Rosser | Michelyn Emelle | Erik Kilpatrick | Holly Dennison | Moira Dunphy | Andrew Rudder | Micah Nelson | Shaun Austin-Olsen | Soo Garay | Erik Dellums | Susan Spencer | Allen Stewart-Coates | Matthew Cooke | Ray Kahnert | Jamie Watling | Brian Mellersh | Jeff A. Wright | Michael T. Burgess | Matthew G. Brown | Ceciley Jenkins | Billy Parrot