Native Son

Year: 1986

Runtime: 111 mins

Language: English

Director: Jerrold Freedman

Drama

A young Black man working as a chauffeur for a white family in 1940s Chicago inadvertently kills the couple’s teenage daughter. As he attempts to hide the crime, the incident spirals into a shocking scandal that exposes racial tensions and brings the community’s conscience into question.

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