A Painted House Movie Review 2003

Loose adaptation of the John Grisham novel finds 10-year-old Luke Chandler (Lerman) living on a struggling Arkansas farm in 1952 with his parents and grandparents. The family needs to hire local "hill" people and Mexican migrant workers to pick their cotton crop and there's trouble between the groups as well as with Luke and his family. Title refers to the fact that the Chandler's bare clapboard farmhouse gets mysteriously painted (they can't afford to do it themselves).

Distribution

Hallmark Home Entertainment, 6100 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 1400, Los Angeles, CA 90048, Phone: (213)634-3000, Fax: (213)549-3760, Remarks: Lainie Handelman, Mktg.

Available on DVD
Running time 110 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Hallmark Hall of Fame, Books to Film: John Grisham, Period Piece: 1950s, Farm Livin', Coming of Age, Family Drama

Screenplay

Patrick Sheane Duncan

Cast

Scott Glenn, Melinda Dillon, Robert Sean Leonard, Logan Lerman, Geoffrey Lewis, Arija Bareikis, Pablo Schreiber, Luis Esteban Garcia, Luke Eberl, Diane Delano, Audrey Marie Anderson

Cinematography

Xavier Perez Grobet

Director

Alfonso Arau

Music

Ruy Folguera