Running for Grace

Running for Grace

Love is worth going the distance

Directed by David L. Cunningham

Produced by Kona Snow Pictures, Public House Films

2018110 min6.5 / 10

A tender period romance set in 1920s Hawaii that centers on found family, forbidden love, and the beauty of human connection across social divides.

An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white "Kona Snow" of the surrounding coffee trees.

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