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The Learning Tree is a 1969 American coming-of-age film written, produced and directed by Gordon Parks, who also scored the film. It depicts the life of Newt Winger, a teenager growing up in Cherokee Flats, Kansas, in the 1920s and chronicles his journey into manhood marked with tragic events.
Mar 13, 1970 · The Learning Tree: Directed by Gordon Parks. With Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans, Dana Elcar. A bittersweet, idyllic story about a year in the life of 14-year-old Newt Winger, born into a poor Black family in Kansas, who learns about love, fear, racial injustice, and immorality.
- (1.6K)
- Drama
- Gordon Parks
- 1970-03-13
Brief Synopsis. A black boy growing up in Kansas dreams of a better life in this film version of director Gordon Parks's autobiography.
- Gordon Parks, Jack Aldworth, Fred Giles
- Kyle Johnson
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- Gordon Parks
- 107 min
- 10
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A personal triumph for director-producer-writer-composer Gordon Parks (adapting his novel), The Learning Tree traces one watershed year in the life of young Newt (Kyle Johnson), in which he...
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Based on Parks’s own semi-autobiographical novel, The Learning Tree follows the journey of Newt Winger, a teenage descendant of Exodusters growing up in rural Kansas in the 1920s, as he experiences the bittersweet flowering of first love, finds his relationship with a close friend tested, and navigates the injustices embedded within racist ...
