| Screenplay: | Grant Scharbo Jim Thompson |
| Story: | Grant Scharbo |
| Director: | Helen Shaver |
| Starring: | James Earl Jones Jake LeDoux Brendan Fletcher Wendy Crewson |
| Composer: | Lawrence Shragge |
| Country: | Canada United States |
| Language: | English |
| Producer: | Gina Matthews Frank Siracusa Connie Tavel Patrick Whitley |
| Cinematography: | Andreas Poulsson |
| Editor: | Rick Martin |
| Runtime: | 107 minutes |
| Company: | Temple Street Productions |
| Network: | Showtime |
Summer's End is a 1999 drama television film directed by Helen Shaver (in her directorial debut) from a screenplay by Grant Scharbo and Jim Thompson, based on a story by Scharbo.[1] The film tells the story of two teenage brothers who have lost their father, one of which befriends an African-American physician facing racial prejudice in a small town in Georgia.
The film premiered on Showtime on January 30, 1999.[2] It received nominations for four Daytime Emmy Awards, and won for best children's special and also best actor (James Earl Jones).[3]
A young boy, still grieving over his father's death, befriends a retired physician, the former chief of cardiology at an Atlanta hospital who has returned to his hometown in North Georgia where he had a traumatic boyhood; but racial intolerance in the local, predominantly white, lakeside community ends up souring the relationship.[4] [5]