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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored is a 1996 American period drama film directed by Tim Reid and starring Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad and Leon. The screenplay was written by Paul W. Cooper. The film is based on Clifton Taulbert’s real life and his non-fiction book Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored.
- $2.9 million
- January 26, 1996 (United States)
- Michael Bennett, Tim Reid
Jan 26, 1996 · When We Were Colored: Directed by Tim Reid. With Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Leon, Paula Kelly. A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
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- Drama, Romance
- Tim Reid
- 1996-01-26
Jan 26, 1996 · Roger Ebert January 26, 1996. Tweet. Tim Reid 's "Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored" re-creates the world of a black community in the rural South in the years from 1946 to 1962, as hardline segregation gradually fell to the assault of the civil rights movement.
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It's 1946 in Mississippi, and young Cliff (Charles Earl Taylor Jr.), living under the care of great-grandfather Poppa (Al Freeman Jr.) and great-grandmother Ma Pearl (Paula Kelly), is starting to...
- (15)
- Tim Reid
- PG
- Al Freeman Jr.
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there.
The book won Taulbert a Pulitzer Prize nomination and was later made into a 1996 movie starring Phylicia Rashad, Richard Roundtree, Isaac Hayes, and Al Freeman, Jr. See also. Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored; References
Watch in Movie Theaters on January 26th, 1996. Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting January 12th, 1999 - Buy Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored DVD. Stream 'Once Upon a...
