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.
Directed by Mark Piznarski
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Cast
Josh Hamilton
Michael Herlihy
Julia Stiles
Katie Herlihy
Jerry O'Connell
Brian Herlihy
Jeremy Sisto
Kenny Klein
Jordana Brewster
Sarah Weinstock
Leonard Roberts
Emmet Taylor
Bill Smitrovich
Bill Herlihy
Annie Corley
Mary Herlihy
Donovan Leitch
Neal Reynolds
David Alan Grier
Fred Hampton
Charles S. Dutton
Reverend Willie Taylor
Cliff Gorman
Father Daniel Berrigan
April Mills
Constance
Marc Blucas
Buddy Wells
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