Take a Giant Step

Take a Giant Step (1959)

Approved 01 Dec 1959 • Drama • 1h 40m
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A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room. Spence's crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father's attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.'s Civil Rights Era.

Philip Leacock
Director
Louis S. Peterson, Julius J. Epstein
Writer
Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee
Starring

Language: English
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 3 nominations total
Country: United States
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6.9

IMDb (496 votes)
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