The Education of Little Tree (1997)

Directed by

Richard Friedenberg

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young orphan boy goes to live with his Cherokee grandmother and Scottish grandfather in the Great Smoky Mountains during the Great Depression. He learns about nature, family traditions, and facing prejudice from the outside world.

gentlewarmnostalgicbittersweetslow-pacedearthyheartfeltquiet

What happens

The Education of Little Tree is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Richard Friedenberg, and starring James Cromwell, Tantoo Cardinal, Joseph Ashton and Graham Greene. It is based on the controversial 1976 fictional memoir of the same title by Asa Earl Carter (writing pseudonymously as "Forrest Carter", a Cherokee writer) about an orphaned boy raised by his paternal Scottish-descent grandfather and Cherokee grandmother in the Great Smoky Mountains. Writer-director Friedenberg co-adapted the screenplay for the film alongside Earl Hamner Jr. and Don Sipes, shortly after completing his adaptation for Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It (1992). In the United States, the film was given a limited release through Paramount Pictures on Christmas Day 1997, less than one week after the release of Paramount's record-breaking box-office hit Titanic (1997), and grossed $323,411 domestically. Friedenberg was nominated for a Humanitas Prize for Best Feature Film, while Cardinal and Greene both won First Americans in the Arts Awards for their performances. The film also nominated for three Young Artist Awards, winning two—one for Ashton's performance, and a Jackie Coogan Award for best feature. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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