The Learning Tree
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8/6/1969Runtime
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The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.
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A quietly powerful portrait of a Black teenager's passage through a formative year in 1920s Kansas, where daily indignities and family struggles accumulate into a reckoning with adulthood. The film observes its subject with tender attention to the quiet devastations of growing up in a small town marked by racial tension.
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