Name: MY MOTHER THE CHEERLEADER
Logline: When her mother pulls her out of class to protest the court-ordered integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960, 13-year-old Louise doesn’t give the political issues much thought. Her mother Pauline is, in fact, one of those jeering “Cheerleaders who hurl racial insults at first-grader Ruby Bridges insults outside the school every morning. However, after New York editor Morgan Miller comes to stay in Pauline’s run-down boardinghouse, his quiet outrage makes Louise begin to raise doubts and questions. The reason for Morgan’s visit then gets called into question, and everything Louise thinks she knows about her mother, her world, and herself begins to change.
Writer: Robert Sharenow (author)
Prod Co: Red Om Films
Reliance Big Entertainment
Producer: Julia Roberts
Genre: Drama
Info: Based on the novel “My Mother the Cheerleader” written by Robert Sharenow.
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