Underplayed Gems

A Father for Charlie (1995)

A Father for Charlie poster
Directed by
Jeff Bleckner
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In 1932, a black farmer in the Ozarks endures racist abuse from his white neighbors. He forms an unlikely friendship with the 10-year-old son of his white tenant farmer.

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What happens

A Father for Charlie (alternate title: High Lonesome), is a television film that premiered on CBS on January 1, 1995. The film was directed by Jeff Bleckner and written by H. Haden Yelin. It stars Louis Gossett Jr. as Walter Osgood, the only black farmer in the highly-prejudiced town of High Lonesome in the Ozarks, at the height of the Great Depression in 1932. Despite the racist abuse he endures from the townspeople and the Ku Klux Klan, Walter forms an unlikely friendship with Charlie, the 10-year-old son of his white tenant farmer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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