

Good Fences
2003-01-22 · 119 min · ★ 6.0
Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to move his wife and their two kids out of their mixed lower-middle-class town and into the posh enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut.
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- Directors
- Ernest R. Dickerson
- Production companies
- 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Danny GloverTom Spader
Whoopi GoldbergMabel Spader
Marie V. CruzPani Suziharo
Munro ChambersBilly
Mo'NiqueRuth Crisp
Ryan Michelle BatheStormy (age 17)
Marlyne BarrettTina
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