The Color of Friendship

Release Date: 2000-02-05

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.

Rating: 6.7 / 10

Cast

Carl Lumbly

as Ron Dellums

Penny Johnson Jerald

as Roscoe Dellums

Shadia Simmons

as Piper Dellums

Anthony Burnett

as Brandy Dellums

Travis Kyle Davis

as Erik Dellums