America's Dream (1996)

Directed by

Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Bill Duke, Paris Barclay

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three separate stories show African American characters facing racial injustice and personal struggles in different time periods. A man confronts his wife's infidelity with a white salesman, a school principal defends a painting made by a young boy, and a black soldier returns home to his father after World War II.

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What happens

America's Dream is a 1996 American made-for-television drama film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Bill Duke, and Paris Barclay, and written by Ron Stacker Thompson and Ashley Tyler. It is based on the short stories "Long Black Song" by Richard Wright, "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black" by John Henrik Clarke, and "The Reunion" by Maya Angelou. The film stars Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes, Lorraine Toussaint, Tate Donovan, Norman D. Golden II, Susanna Thompson and Jasmine Guy. It premiered on HBO on February 17, 1996. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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