Polly: Comin' Home!

Polly: Comin' Home!

1990 · 100 min · ★ 8.5 · Family, Music, TV Movie

Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.

Directed by Debbie Allen · Written by Eleanor H. Porter

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