High Lonesome

Starring: Joseph Mazzello, Louis Gossett Jr Director: Jeff Bleckner Original UK Premiere: 1995 Dvd Release: 8th October, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Full Screen, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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High Lonesome is a made-for-TV movie, otherwise known as A Father for Charlie. Its set in the American South in the Depression & tells of the friendship between Walter, a black sharecropper & Charlie, a small white boy. Though the films motives are honourable in its attempt at dealing with white racism, the story is implausible in its assumptions & deeply sentimental, not least in the last-minute conversion of the virulently racist local sheriff.

Joseph Mazzello is an American film actor born on September 21, 1983. He grew up in Rhinebeck, New York. His most notable roles were Tim in the 1993 film Jurassic Park & Dexter in the 1995 cult classic, The Cure. He is sometimes credited as Joe. His height is 5 8. Joseph is of Irish / Italian descent & is Catholic. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 2005. He has one older sister & a younger brother, John, who has also appeared in a few films. Joseph will be making his directorial debut with the film, Matters of Life & Death in which he will also be starring; the cast includes David Strathairn, Daniel Gillies & Rachael Leigh Cook. Hell also be starring in The Sensation Of Light; both films are due out in 2006. Posters Of Simon Birch

Editors Choice: Simon Birch, High Lonesome, View DVDology

Louis Gossett Jr. is an American actor. He was born in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn in 1936 & attended Abraham Lincoln High School where he was class president & an academic as well as athletic achiever. A sports injury left him with no choice but to take an acting class & at 16 he made his stage debut in the schools production of You Cant Take It With You. After school, he attended New York University, where he became a star basketball player & was chosen to play for the New York Knicks. However, his true vocation was acting & he took a big step into the world of cinema in the Sidney Poitier vehicle A Raisin in the Sun. Since then he has gone on to star in numerous film productions such as The Deep, Jaws 3-D, Enemy Mine, Iron Eagle, Toy Soldiers & The Punisher to name but a few & TV. He is also the voice of the Vortigaunts in Half-Life 2. he became the first actor to be shown giving birth on screen, when he played an alien of a one-gendered species. Posters Of High Lonesome

Editors Choice: Deceived, Bram Stokers Legend Of The Mummy, High Lonesome, Iron Eagle 4, Flashfire, Iron Eagle, Midnight Sting, Cover Up, View DVDology

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