The Color of Friendship (6.7)

Movie · 2000 · 1 h 23 min · Drama

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

Starring Carl Lumbly, Penny Johnson Jerald, Lindsey Haun, Shadia Simmons, Ahmad Stoner, Anthony Burnett, Travis Kyle Davis, Susan Danford, Melanie Nicholls-King, Michael Kanev

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