Common Ground
Drama
TV Movie
Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get her children a quality education and a white lawyer trying to deal with inner city problems.
1990-03-25
en
Cast
Director
Mike Newell
Jane Curtin as Alice McGoff
CCH Pounder as Rachel Twymon
Erika Alexander as Cassandra Twymon
Sean McCann as Frank Power
James Farentino as Mayor Kevin White
Richard Thomas as Colin Diver
Lorraine Toussaint as Alva Debnam
Kathleen Doyle as Kathleen
Daniel O'Shea as Danny McGoff, Sr.
Robert Gossett as Arnold Walker
Hattie Winston as Daisy Voight
Frankie Faison as Otis Debnam
Louis Ferreira as Billy McGoff
Lawrence Dane as Bob Murphy
Beeson Carroll as Healy
Mike Starr as Terry Cattson
James McDaniel as Steve Grace
Samuel L. Jackson as Rev. Bob McClair
Gerard Parkes as Father Foley
Ken Pogue as Father Buckley
Bernard Behrens as James St. Clair
Nicolas Van Burek as Kevin McGoff
Donal Logue as Danny McGoff, Jr.