Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow who lives in a small Southern town, whose life changes drastically when her estranged daughter and the son-in-law she never met die in a car crash. When she visits her granddaughter Jacey in the hospital, she’s shocked to discover that she’s half black, but conceals her misgivings and decides to raise her by herself.
Acting
Gena Rowlands' face does five acts of theater.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like humans learning.
Direction
Sheldon Larry trusts silence over melodrama.
Director
Sheldon Larry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This Hallmark-adjacent TV movie aired when interracial relationships were still taboo on network television — it quietly radicalized grandma TV.
Gena Rowlands developed the project specifically to challenge her own 'nice liberal' image — she wanted to play someone who means well and fails hard.
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