The Color of Friendship (2000)
Actors:
Matthew G. Brown (actor),
Michael T. Burgess (actor),
Anthony Burnett (actor),
Matthew Cooke (actor),
Ryan Cooley (actor),
Travis Kyle Davis (actor),
Erik Dellums (actor),
Stephen Jennings (actor),
Ray Kahnert (actor),
Michael Kanev (actor),
Erik Kilpatrick (actor),
Carl Lumbly (actor),
Brian Mellersh (actor),
Bill Parrot (actor),
Shaun Austin-Olsen (actor),
Plot: 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.
Keywords: 1970s, african-american, african-national-congress, apartheid, archive-footage, arrest, baby, bar, bar-fight, barbecue
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,
Family,
Taglines: Look beyond black and white and you'll find...The Color of Friendship
Quotes:
Piper Dellums: [to Mahree] You do drink chocolate, right? Or maybe you only like vanilla.
[Mahree just found out that her host family is black]::Mahree Bok: [to Roscoe and Piper] You're the family?::Roscoe Dellums: [nodding] Yes.::Mahree Bok: [to Congressman Dellums] And you're the Congressman?::Ron Dellums: [forcing a smile] Welcome to America.
Ron Dellums: [to Mahree] I'm going to bed. And you should, too. School starts tomorrow. Falling asleep in class on the first day of school is frowned on here in America. I know, because I've done it.::[Mahree giggles]
Ron Dellums: I have a friend, a new friend, from South Africa. And this friend recently told me about a unique bird found in her country. And what is remarkable about this bird is not that it nests, for all birds nest, but that this particular bird nests in a community all unrelated to each other and all of different colors. This community of different colors and different birds has one common goal: to care for each other. We are a world of people, not ethnic groups, not races, and not different descriptions of people on paper. We are human beings. And if there is one thing that human beings have in common, it is the desperate need to be free.