Storyline

A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room. Spence's crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father's attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.'s Civil Rights Era.—David Stevens

Plot Keywords

blaxploitation, despair, death of grandmother, race relations, racism, love, misfit, african american, loneliness, based on play, athlete, maid, 1950s, high school, grandmother, prostitute, bigotry, expulsion, school teacher, rebellion

Short Review

A sensitive, well-acted coming-of-age melodrama about a black teenager living in a white neighborhood, played by Johnny nash (later a famous singer).

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