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My Past Is My Own is a american film directed by Helaine Head released in USA on 24 january 1989 with Whoopi Goldberg
My Past Is My Own (1989)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 24 january 1989
Length 1h
Directed by Helaine Head
OriginUSA
Themes Time travel films
Rating62%
My Past Is My Own is a made-for-television movie which aired as a CBS Schoolbreak Special on January 24, 1989. The film is centered on a sit-in in the early 1960s at a racially segregated lunch counter in the Southern United States. Whoopi Goldberg, Phill Lewis and Allison Dean portray the lead characters.
Writer/producer Alan Gansberg was awarded the 1989 Humanitas Prize in the Children's Live-Action Category for his work on My Past Is My Own. Editor Jayme Wing was nominated for an Emmy for best achievement in film editing.
Synopsis
Justin Cook (Phill Lewis) and his sister Kerry (Allison Dean) are two African American teenagers living in a middle-class New Jersey household in the late 1980s. The Cook family is visited by their distant cousin, psychologist Mariah Johnston (Whoopi Goldberg). A contemporary of Justin and Kerry's parents, Mariah is about to receive an award for her years of community work, particularly in the area of civil rights. Having been born after the Civil Rights Movement, Justin and Kerry never experienced Jim Crow segregation, and the two fail to appreciate the stories about the era that Mariah and their parents recount at dinner.Actors
Whoopi Goldberg
(Mariah Johnston)
Phill Lewis
(Justin Cook)
CCH Pounder
(Renee Cook)
Thalmus Rasulala
(Marshall Cook)
William Allen Young
(Rev. James Jordan)
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