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A Dry White Season
Summary: A white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a...
Release Date: September 20, 1989
Director:
Euzhan Palcy
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: R
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 9,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,766,879
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