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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

1996Directed by Tim Reid

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Released: January 26, 1996
Runtime: 1h 55m

About Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

Romance
Drama

Synopsis

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

Director: Tim Reid
Writers: Paul W. Cooper
Clifton L. Taulbert

Principal cast

In billing order

Al Freeman Jr.Poppa
Phylicia RashādMa Ponk
Paula KellyMa Pearl
Salli Richardson-WhitfieldMiss Alice
Anna Maria HorsfordMiss Annie
Bernie CaseyMr. Walter

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