Hally (Freddie Highmore), is a seventeen-year-old living in South Africa with his black servant Sam (Ving Rhames), who has been with him since he was a little child. In the climate of the Apatheid, his soul is costantly divided between the racism of his family and his growing-up friendship with Sam.
Definitively an interesting and deep plot for a film which is also a remake of a movie of 1985, starring Matthew Broderick. As far as we can see from the trailer (attached below), this is going to be an amazing film, with a Freddie Highmore contantely growing up both as a boy (total new voice) and as an actor, who finds in this kind of films the right field to express his skills at his best; costarring with him we find Ving Rhames, already in Mission: Impossible and Entrapment.
I just can’t wait to see this movie, coming out next winter. It has finished to be filmed (on location in South Africa) in February, and now it’s in post-production.
MASTER HAROLD… AND THE BOYS
Status: completed – awaiting distribution
Regia: Lonny Price
Interpreti principali: Freddie Highmore (Hally); Ving Rhames (Sam); Patrick Mofokeng (Willie); Justin Stein (Bully).
Sceneggiatura: Nicky Rebello
Soggetto: Master Harold… and the Boys, spettacolo teatrale di Athol Fugard
Genere: drammatico
Durata: 87 minuti
Paese: Sud Africa – 2009
Distribuzione: Focus Films
ATTENTION, PLEASE: Since YouTube has cancelled this video, here’s another link where you can find it available: http://dailymotion.virgilio.it/video/x9jxzw_master-harold-and-the-boys-trailer_shortfilms?from=rss. Enjoy!
(Nov.19 2009: I add the new youtube-video, now available again!)
La Conchiglia online 
It has come out in South Africa at the opening of the Cape Winelands Film Festival in Stellenbosch two weeks ago! The news is on IMDb! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234546/board/nest/158792420?d=159298216&p=1#159298216 It’s about time… but no date yet!New trivial: it will be 87 minutes long.
I add the new youtube-trailer, now available again!
NON CI CREDO!! L’HANNO RITIRATO!!!!!!!! Per violazione di copyright???? Maccheccacchio significa?? Cioè lo mettono in giro e poi lo ritirano così?? Ma va’ va! :-@