A painted house [videorecording] / CBS Television ; Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions ; McGee Street Productions, Inc. ; producer, Jason Speck ; screenplay writer, Patrick Sheane Duncan ; director, Alfonso Arau.
Title from container. Based on the novel by John Grisham. Special features: production notes; cast and credits; biographies. Scott Glenn, Arija Bareikis, Robert Sean Leonard, Melinda Dillon, Logan Lerman, Pablo Schreiber, Audrey Marie Anderson, Geoffrey Lewis, Michael Shamus Wiles.
Summary:
10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets excited about a new invention - television.
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