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Polly: Comin' Home!

1990 · 100 min

A sunny, song-filled comfort watch with a big-hearted orphan nudging grown-ups toward kindness and love.

Directed by: Debbie Allen
Genres: Family, Music, Tv movie
Starring: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashād, Dorian Harewood

Overview: 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.

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Directed by: Debbie Allen
Genres: Family, Music, Tv movie
Starring: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashād, Dorian Harewood

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Tone: warmstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 3 of 3
upliftingstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
race
love
found family
coming-of-age
Places: small town
home
Era: period
Audience: family
Form: musical
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	5
Realism	6
Romance	5
Tension	3
Darkness	2
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: family, music, tv movie
Directed by: Debbie Allen
Written by: William Blinn, Eleanor H. Porter
Starring: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashād, Dorian Harewood, Brandon Quintin Adams, Vanessa Bell Calloway, T.K. Carter, Ken Page, George Anthony Bell
Runtime: 100 min
Country: United States of America

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