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A Father for Charlie (alternate title: High Lonesome), is a television film that premiered on CBS on January 1, 1995. The film was directed by Jeff Bleckner and written by H. Haden Yelin.
Jan 1, 1995 · With Louis Gossett Jr., Joseph Mazzello, James Greene, Don Swayze. Based on a true story. A poor black sharecropper strikes up an unlikely friendship with a hostile young white boy - but their budding friendship is threatened by a brutal red-neck sheriff.
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- Drama, Western
- Jeff Bleckner
- 1995-01-01
A black farmer in an Ozark Mountain town during the Depression finds himself compelled to care for a hostile 10-year-old boy who has been abandoned by his drunken, racist sharecropper father.
A Father for Charlie is a 1995 drama film starring Louis Gossett Jr. as a widowed farmer who befriends a white boy in the Depression-era Ozarks. Find out how to watch, see the cast, and read reviews on TV Guide.
Jan 1, 1995 · Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man left in the town of High Lonesome that has been cleared by the overwhelming white supremacist beliefs. He searches for his missing son in this drama set in the 1930s America.
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A poor black sharecropper strikes up an unlikely friendship with a hostile young white boy - but their budding friendship is threatened by a brutal red-neck sheriff. In a town ruled by racial prejudice, only a boy had the courage to take a stand. Oscar winner Louis Gossett, Jr.
