My Sweet Charlie

My Sweet Charlie

1970 · 97 min · ★ 6.8 · Drama, TV Movie

A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.

Directed by Lamont Johnson

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