The Color of Friendship
Movie • 2000 • Drama
ReportMahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
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The movie discusses Steven Biko, an anti-apartheid activist, being tortured by police and killed. Nothing is shown, though it is discussed openly but not graphically.
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A wild weaver bird is kept in a cage for several months, but freed in the end. It is also presumably not otherwise maltreated.
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Mahree is pulled from the Dellums house by the South African ambassadors quickly and without warning or consent. It is referred to in the movie as being kidnapped. She is held at the embassy where they attempt to secure her a flight home, but she is returned to the care of Mr. Dellums without being mistreated.
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Mahree’s father is a cop - there’s some in South Africa in the movie.
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It is said that Steven Biko killed himself, but this is later disconfirmed.
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Mahri explains what a certain word means in South Africa but doesn’t call her black friend that.
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Use of the n- word and "kaffir"
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