1 Movie Starring Johnny Nash

Take a Giant Step

Take a Giant Step

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-12-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

(141 Reviews)

Director:

Philip Leacock

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Louis S. Peterson (screenplay)

Julius J. Epstein (screenplay)

Louis S. Peterson (play)

Fullplot:

A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room. Spence's crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father's attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.'s Civil Rights Era.

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