Color of Love
7.6
2021
1 hr 25 min
Drama
, TV Movie
An African American widow with two kids who has so much love to give, she often fosters children who need a home. She finds out that Peter and Rachel, the white siblings she fostered twice before, fled from their latest foster home.
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- Cast:
- Deborah Joy Winans , Michael Brown , Sarah Abbott
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Reviews
not as good as all the hype
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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
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Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
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