Synopsis
Heath Freeman (Tru Calling, ER) heads an all-star cast including Clifton Davis (Any Given Sunday) Ben Vereen (Roots), Stacey Dash (Renaissance Man) and Debbie Allen (Fame) in the period drama Soldier of Change, which resurrects the turmoil and confusion of the late sixties. Travel back in time to visit a young man, Randy (Freeman) who finds himself immersed in the impassioned civil rights cause in the States, and struggles valiantly to adjust to the changing social fabric around him. But this is only the first of two worlds that Randy encounters. When he is drafted and shipped off to Asia - and the nightmare that called itself Vietnam - this inexperienced soldier must fight for his life and his convictions as he attempts to survive amid the turmoil of a war whose real nature is alien even to the country fighting it.
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Cast
- Clifton DavisThomas Ayers
- Charles ShaughnessyRandolph Barrington III
- Stacey DashHallie Gilmore aged 18
- Debbie AllenBertha Lee Gilmore
- Thomas FattorusoEverett Renalt
- Heath FreemanRandy Barrington aged 18
- Ben VereenWhistlin' Willie Weston
- Cody DorkinRandy Barrington aged 13
- Bumper RobinsonMarcus Gilmore
- Josh AckermanAllen Kuperburg
Recommendations
- 50
L.A. Weekly
The Painting is a sleekly crafted quilt of moldy racial insight and feel-good kumbaya-isms set against the backdrop of the civil rights era. The acting is competent, TV-movie-of-the-week quality (network, not cable), while every single character is a type you've seen a million times before. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Too squeaky-clean to convey the turbulence of the period. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Moving from tragedy to tragedy, the film teeters along unsteadily, showing events we've seen countless times before and then imploding under the weight of its ridiculous ending. - 20
Film Threat
This is the sort of film that would drive Miss Daisy to upchuck at the shenanigans of its saintly, cardboard characters and its bizarre, rose-colored depiction of U.S. race relations.
