Once upon a Time...When We Were Colored (1996)
Directed by Tim Reid
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Americana, Childhood Drama, Family Drama |
Release Date - Jan 26, 1996 (USA - Limited) |
Run Time - 111 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - PG
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Synopsis by Matthew Tobey
Actor Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati) made his directorial debut with this filmed adaptation of Clifton L. Taulbert's autobiography. Set in an African-American community in the segregated South, Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored follows a young Taulbert through three decades, beginning with his birth in a cotton field in 1946. As he grows up, Taulbert is faced with the harsh realities of being black in the mid-20th century: first from the lessons of his great-grandfather (Al Freeman Jr.), later in his trips to the local segregated library, and finally in 1962, when a 16-year-old Taulbert watches as his community deals with a racist white business owner trying to run a local black ice man out of town. Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored was the recipient of the Audience Choice Award at the 1995 St. Louis International Film Festival.
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African-American, Civil-Rights, discrimination, family, grandfather, prejudice, race-relations, library
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High Artistic Quality, Sleeper