The Runaway (2000)
Actors:
Dean Cain (actor),
Bryan Scott Cooper (actor),
Steve Coulter (actor),
Cliff De Young (actor),
David Dwyer (actor),
Johnell Gainey (actor),
Michael Harding (actor),
Pat Hingle (actor),
Leland L. Jones (actor),
Tyler Long (actor),
Kyle Jason Louque (actor),
Duane McLaughlin (actor),
Cody Newton (actor),
Afemo Omilami (actor),
Charles Black (actor),
Plot: In a Dixie small-town, the late sheriff was quite content to preside over a truly segregated community. There the rich brothers, Harlan and Mason Davis, are lords. His successor, Word War II veteran Frank Richards, has a more modern view on justice and equality, which doesn't help his social acceptance anywhere. He also has doubts about the mysterious masked 'peg-leg' to whom all murders where ascribed. Harlan is shot after an african-american boy threats him with a gun to stop his old-fashioned 'liberalities'. Frank and the prosecutor's retired dad, agree to act as defense council, investigate, cued by the boy's Caucasian playmate, Luke Winter, and turn both case and town around.
Keywords: 1940s, based-on-novel, conspiracy, corpse, interracial-friendship, murder-investigation, race-relations, raft, segregation, small-town
Genres:
Drama,
Taglines: Two boys in search of adventure uncover a secret that a town is sworn to hide... and a mystery that a sheriff vows to solve.