Sudie and Simpson (1990)

Director: Joan Tewkesbury

A television movie about the friendship that develops between a young white girl and an older black man in a racist, rural Georgia town during the 1940s.

Cast

Louis Gossett Jr.

Simpson

Sara Gilbert

Sudie Harrigan

John M. Jackson

Dr. Walter Stubbs

Frances Fisher

Mrs. Marge Allen

Paige Danahy

Mary Agnes Clark

Ken Strong

Mr. Harrigan

Robby Preddy

Mrs. Hester Harrigan

Larry Black

Mr. Etheridge

Scott Brian Higgs

Lem Coker

Howard Kingkade

Earl Rice