The Last Brickmaker in America

A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.

Cast

Sidney Poitier

as Henry Cobb

Wendy Crewson

as Karen Potter

Jay O. Sanders

as Mike Potter

Mary Alice

as Dorothy Cobb

Bernie Casey

as Lewis

Cody Newton

as Danny Potter

Piper Laurie

as Ruth Anne

Duke Ernsberger

as Principal Robert Keenan

Tom Nowicki

as Carl Douglass

Mert Hatfield

as Bank Chairman Redden

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