The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.
Stars: Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles, Jerry O'Connell, Jeremy Sisto, Jordana Brewster, Leonard Roberts
Crew: Robert Greenfield (Writer), Peter C. Clarke (Property Master), Mark Piznarski (Director), Bill Couturié (Writer), Jeffrey Alan Fiskin (Teleplay), Jim Chory (Producer)
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studio: NBC Studios, Lynda Obst Productions
Runtime: 172 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Feb 07, 1999
IMDb: 5.036