A Storm in Summer

Feb 6, 1970

1h 30m

★ 6.0

Overview

A story of the friendship between an elderly Jewish man and a young African-American boy set during the Vietnam War.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions

A Storm in Summer Trailers

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Cast

Abel Shaddick

Peter Ustinov

Herman Washington

N'Gai Dixon

Stanley

Peter Bonerz

Harriet

Anne Collings

Gloria Ross

Marlyn Mason

Mrs. Parker

Frances Robinson

Mrs. Gold

Penny Santon

Maitre d'

Jonathan Hole

1st Hot Rodder

Aron Kincaid

2nd Hot Rodder

John Evans

Policeman

Kevin Hagen

Karel Doležal, insurance clerk and exemplary father of a family, leaves for a business trip with his secretary Vlasta. After spending the night together, they both return home. However, thanks to a small moment of inattention, they run over the boys. Karel runs away from the scene of the crime. He won't tell anyone what happened. Then when he reads in the newspaper that the boy did not survive the accident, he begins to feel guilty. He confides in his wife about the accident, not the infidelity. Their son Jirka overhears everything. His father has always been his role model, and that's why he doesn't want to accept his guilt.

7.1

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0.0

Limbo the Movie

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8.0

Gran Torino

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4.3

Family Squares

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The Worth Family has been divided for years but when the matriarch, Grandma Mabel, dies suddenly, the family has to come together. The story of Family Squares takes the Worth Family on a journey discovering that not only did Grandma Mabel keep some secrets, so did everyone else. They find their way back to each other and realize that while you can’t choose your family, you can choose to be friends with them.

7.4

My Father and My Son

Nov 18, 2005

A left-wing journalist whose wife died while giving birth to his son during a military coup returns to his family's farm. Estranged from his father for turning his back on the family and wasting his life with political activism instead, he tries to reconnect with him so that his son will have a place to live as his health is deteriorating due to the extensive torture he had to endure.

6.3

Monumental

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0.0

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6.5

The Last Movie Star

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6.5

Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi

Apr 19, 2003

Chandu is very passionate about kickboxing and his life revolves around his mother and his girlfriend. His life is shattered when his dying mother asks him to meet his estranged father Raghuveer.

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10.0

The Choice

Aug 2, 2019

A father and son are practicing some football plays before the big game coming up. The son is distant and distracted as he has a big decision to make. His father is best positioned to give advice, but it will require digging into some emotional memories and cause both of them to talk about an uncomfortable subject that they've never had to face head on before.

6.2

Steptoe & Son

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Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.

8.2

The Last Image of Father

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Dusan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dusan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dusan is all he has.

0.0

I-57

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A mother tries to support her son and his gender identity by inviting a new friend to dinner.

4.3

Fishbowl

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It is 1999 in Bishop, a small town filled with secrets. Three sisters, Belle, Rachel, and Jessa are trying to cope with the absence of their mother and maintain a normal life. Silently repressing them is Rick, their damaged father who, adrift himself, is growing increasingly obsessed with the rapture that he believes is imminent. With home anything but a refuge, the sisters must cling to one another to survive.

7.0

Anhedonia

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6.3

The Cabin in the Cotton

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0.0

出门挣钱的人

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No overview available.

3.8

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Sep 13, 2014

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