Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Joseph Mazzello, William Fichtner, Don Swayze

Director: Jeff Bleckner

Summary: Walter Osgood is the only black man left in the 1930s racially-prejudiced town of High Lonesome in the Ozark Mountains. Having lost everything, including his wife and son, he faces being driven out himself by the townsfolk, until a small boy named Charlie befriends him...

This touching, made-for-TV drama stars Joseph Mazzello as a young boy who develops a unique bond with a black man (Louis Gossett, Jr.) targeted by the Ku Klux Klan.

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High Lonesome(1995) is a made-for-TV movie, otherwise known as A Father for Charlie. It's set in the American South in the Depression and tells of the friendship between Walter, a black sharecropper (Louis Gossett Jr) and Charlie, a small white boy. Though the film's motives are honourable in its attempt at dealing with white racism, the story is implausible in its assumptions (would a black man have been allowed to foster a white boy at that time?) and deeply sentimental, not least in the last-minute conversion of the virulently racist local sheriff.

On the DVD:The quality of the sound and image is adequate, but there are no extras apart from trailers. --Ed Buscombe

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	About The Film, About The Stars, Interactive Menus, Scene Selections
Year:	1995
Release Date:	October 8, 2001
Runtime:	90 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	O D X 20054
Keywords:	Charlie, High, Father, General, Lonesome, Drama
Genre:	Drama