Good Fences

Jan 22, 2003

1h 59m

★ 5.7

Overview

Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to move his wife and their two kids out of their mixed lower-middle-class town and into the posh enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

TV Movie

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Cast

Tom Spader

Danny Glover

Mabel Spader

Whoopi Goldberg

Pani Suziharo

Marie V. Cruz

Billy

Munro Chambers

Ruth Crisp

Mo'Nique

Stormy (age 17)

Ryan Michelle Bathe

Tina

Marlyne Barrett

Jordan Shaw

Thomas Chambers

Binky

Joy Tanner

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