Summer's End (film)


Summer's End is a 1999 drama television film directed by Helen Shaver from a screenplay by Grant Scharbo and Jim Thompson, based on a story by Scharbo. The film tells the story of two teenage brothers who have lost their father, one of which befriends an African-American physician facing racial prejudice in a small town in Georgia.
The film premiered on Showtime on January 30, 1999. It received nominations for four Daytime Emmy Awards, and won for best children's special and also best actor.

Plot

A young boy, still grieving over his father's death, befriends a retired physician, the former chief of cardiology at an Atlanta hospital who has returned to his hometown in North Georgia where he had a traumatic boyhood; but racial intolerance in the local, predominately white, lakeside community ends up souring the relationship.

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