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A Father for Charlie (1995) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1995 · 90 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Jeff Bleckner
- Starring
- Louis Gossett Jr., Joseph Mazzello, Evan Rachel Wood, James Greene, Don Swayze, William Lucking
Set in the American heartland during the 1930s, the story follows Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr.), the sole Black resident left in the town of High Lonesome after a wave of white‑supremacist expulsions. Having lost his entire family to that terror, he roams the bleak landscape unsure whether his young son survived, a desperate quest that drives the film’s emotional core.
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