White Lies (1997)

Directed by

Ken Selden

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young white woman and a young black man fall in love. They face racist prejudices and a small lie that leads to bigger problems. The story is about learning to trust, regretting mistakes, and the chance for forgiveness.

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What happens

White Lies is a movie, directed by Ken Selden, with Larry Gilliard Jr. and Julie Warner playing the main characters Leon Turner and Mimi Furst. The plot is a love story between a young white woman and a young black man. It is a story of overcoming racist prejudices, and about how a little lie can have big consequences, and about trust each other, and in the end: what chances are unfolded by forgiveness, when somebody regrets his mistake. The year it was made and/or published is variably cited as 1995 (NY Times), 1996 (German Wikipedia site), and 1997 (several television journals / IMDB). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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