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ONCE UPON A TIME ... WHEN WE WERE COLORED
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This sentimental recreation of African-American experience in the segregated South makes for passable family entertainment, but it's neither bitter nor moving enough to leave much of an impression. Born in a Mississippi cotton field to an unmarried sharecropper, young Clifton (Charles Earl "Spud" Taylor Jr.) is sent to live with his loving grandpa (Al Freeman Jr.) and later, his equally loving aunt (Phylicia Rashad). Based on Clifton Taulbert's memoirs of a 1940s boyhood, th... read more leave a comment
Year: 1996
Rated PG

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Cast
Al Freeman Jr.: Poppa
Phylicia Rashad: Ma Ponk
Leon: Uncle Melvin
Paula Kelly: Mama Pearl
Salli Richardson: Miss Alice
Anna Maria Horsford: Miss Annie

 

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