A Father for Charlie (1995)

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

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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