Running for Grace

Aug 17, 2018

1h 50m

★ 6.5

Love is worth going the distance

Overview

An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white "Kona Snow" of the surrounding coffee trees.

Genres

Family

Romance

Production Companies

Kona Snow Pictures

Public House Films

Running for Grace Trailers

Cast

Ryan Potter

Doc

Matt Dillon

Reyes

Jim Caviezel

Grace

Olivia Ritchie

Grandmother

Juliet Mills

Danielson

Nick Boraine

Mayor

Stelio Savante

Helen Reyes

Peyton Dilweg

Young Jo

Cole Takiue

Miss Hanabusa

Rumi Oyama

Miyu

Sara Naby Kim

Sota

Dann Seki

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