Synopsis

Release Date: 12/25/1997
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Friedenberg
Cast: James Cromwell , Tantoo Cardinal , Joseph Ashton , Graham Greene

Richard Friedenberg scripted and made his directorial debut with this adaptation of Forrest Carter's 1992 award-winning coming-of-age novel detailing the Depression-era boyhood of an orphaned Cherokee, eight-year-old Little Tree (Joseph Ashton). Raised and tutored by his grandparents (Tantoo Cardinal, James Cromwell) in the Smokey Mountains of the 1930s, Little Tree encounters difficulties after authorities force him to attend the Notched Gap Indian School. Friedenberg later received an Oscar nomination for his A River Runs Through It screenplay.

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