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Master Harold... and the Boys is a film of genre Drama directed by Lonny Price with Freddie Highmore
Master Harold... and the Boys (2010)
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Add to a movie listMaster Harold...and the Boys is a 2010 film, which is based on the original theatre play of the same name by Athol Fugard, directed by director Lonny Price. The cast includes Freddie Highmore and Ving Rhames with the release to be set in 2010.
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^ "Master Harold…and the Boys starts shooting in Cape Town". Filmaker South Africa.
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^ "Master Harold...and the Boys". Shoreline Entertainment.
^ "Fugard film shoots in Cape". SCREEN AFRICA.
^ "Ving Rhames joins 'Master Harold'". AllBusiness.
Synopsis
Set in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, during the early apartheid days. The story deals with the coming of age of seventeen-year-old Hally (played by Freddie Highmore). Hally, a white South African, has a bad relationship with his biological father and is torn between his father’s expectations and opinions of him and those of his surrogate fathers, black waiters named Sam (played by Ving Rhames) and Willie (played by Patrick Mofokeng). Young Hally is obliged to laugh at his father’s racist jokes and perform humiliating tasks like empty chamber pots. By contrast, Sam exposes Hally to many positive experiences. After being humiliated by his father, Sam shows Hally how to be proud of something he’s achieved by helping him build and fly his own kite.Actors
Freddie Highmore
(Hally Ballard)
Ving Rhames
(Sam)
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