Themes: Haunted By the Past, Discovering One's Heritage, Social Injustice
Main Cast: Gregory Hines, Annette O'Toole, Bill Nunn
Release Year: 1991
Country: US
Run Time: 93 minutes
Plot
In White Lie, a drama based on Samuel Charters' novel Louisiana Black,Gregory Hines plays Len Madison Jr., a New York-based mayoral press secretary who learns that his father was lynched in the South three decades earlier. Madison returns to the South, where he is intent on learning the truth about his father's death. Along the way, he is helped by a doctor (Annette O'Toole), the daughter of the white woman whom Madison's father allegedly raped and killed. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Rick Andosca - Post Reporter; Dan Biggers - Dr. Byden; Jerry Campbell - Redneck #1; Bill Coates - Black Man in Bar; Ernest Dixon - Times Reporter; Tom Even - Stan Runzel; Tony Franciscus - Young Man in Bar; Ed Grady - Floyd Walker; Gregg Henry - David Lester; Marc Macaulay - Donald Cambio; Carole Mitchell-Leon - Martha Huffer Jordan; Danny Nelson - Wallace Crane; Afemo Omilami - Bartender; Nick Searcy - Policeman; Tonea Stewart - Len's Secretary; Ralph Wilcox - Len Madison Sr.; Trey Yearwood - Walker's Grandson; John Lawhorn - Uncle Ellard; Tom Harper - Redneck #2; C. Harrison Avery - Walter; Mary Ann Hagen - Hospital Nun; Jon Kohler - Tom Doughtery; Michael H. Moss - Reporter; Alex Van - Cambio's Advance Man
Credit
Bill Condon - Director, Virginia Katz - Editor, Philip Giffin - Composer (Music Score), Jeffrey Howard - Production Designer, Stephen M. Katz - Cinematographer, Samuel Carters - Book Author
