The Color of Friendship

Movie

TV Movie

Family

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.

Date: 02/05/2000

Rating: 7.1

Cast: Carl Lumbly, Penny Johnson Jerald, Shadia Simmons, Anthony Burnett, Travis Kyle Davis, Lindsey Haun, Susan Danford, Melanie Nicholls-King, Michael Kanev, Stephen Jennings, Ahmad Stoner, Ryan Cooley, David Rosser, Michelyn Emelle, Erik Kilpatrick, Holly Dennison, Moira Dunphy, Andrew Rudder, Micah Nelson, Shaun Austin-Olsen, Soo Garay, Erik Dellums, Susan Spencer, Allen Stewart-Coates, Matthew Cooke, Ray Kahnert, Jamie Watling, Brian Mellersh, Jeff A. Wright, Michael T. Burgess, Matthew G. Brown, Ceciley Jenkins, Billy Parrot

Carl Lumbly