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The Color of Friendship
20006.71h 23m
Overview
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
Directed by Kevin Hooks
Written by Paris Qualles
Produced by Kevin Hooks, Christopher Morgan
0Top Cast
Carl Lumbly
Ron Dellums
Penny Johnson Jerald
Roscoe Dellums
Shadia Simmons
Piper Dellums
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Anthony Burnett
Brandy Dellums
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Travis Kyle Davis
Erik Dellums
Lindsey Haun
Mahree Bok
Susan Danford
Merle Bok
Melanie Nicholls-King
Flora
Michael Kanev
Rian
Stephen Jennings
Pieter Bok
About The Color of Friendship
The Color of Friendship is a family, drama, tv movie film released in 2000. Directed by Kevin Hooks, it stars Carl Lumbly, Penny Johnson Jerald, Shadia Simmons. Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
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