The Color of Friendship (2000)

1h 23m · Released · TMDB ★ 6.7 (72)

Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.

Director: Kevin Hooks

Starring: Carl Lumbly, Penny Johnson Jerald, Lindsey Haun, Shadia Simmons, Ahmad Stoner, Anthony Burnett