The read
Critics rate it 28 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 92% of the 3,226 2000s drama movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 28 points higher than audiences do.
72 audience votes
Key crew
- Kevin HooksDirector
- Paris QuallesWriter
- Stanley ClarkeOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Carl LumblyRon Dellums
- Penny Johnson JeraldRoscoe Dellums
- Lindsey HaunMahree Bok
- Shadia SimmonsPiper Dellums
- Ahmad StonerDaniel
- Anthony BurnettBrandy Dellums
- Travis Kyle DavisErik Dellums
- Susan DanfordMerle
- Melanie Nicholls-KingFlora
- Michael KanevRian
- Stephen JenningsPieter
- Ryan CooleyBilly