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The Painting

Rating:PG-13 (for some violence and language)
Genre:Drama, Romance
Release Date:January 28, 2005
Running time:95 minutes
Cast:Ben Vereen, Charles Shaughnessy, Bumper Robinson, Clifton Davis, Stacey Dash
Director:Joshua D Rose, Peter Manoogian
Producer:Marina Muhlfriedel, David Rose, Michael Hammer
Writer:Morris Taylor
Distributor:Castle Hill Productions

Description: A world-renowned art collector's wife dies in a car crash, and the distraught midwestern magnate asks his trusted African-American driver to help him raise his son. The boy then grows up torn between the two men's very different worlds, and eventually falls in love with the driver's niece. The two young people face the tribulations of an interracial relationship against the backdrop of the '60s Civil Rights Movement and the war in Vietnam.

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