Luke Chandler --- ten-year-old main character of the movie

Jesse Chandler --- Luke’s father

Kathleen Chandler --- Luke’s mother

Pappy Chandler --- Jesse and Ricky’s father and Luke’s grandfather

Gran Chandler --- Pappy’s wife, Jesse and Ricky’s mother, Luke’s grandmother

Ricky Chandler --- the son who is in the army fighting in the Korean conflict

The Spruill  Family --- the hill people come to help the Chandlers harvest their cotton

The Latchers --- a sharecrop family who are neighbors of the Chandlers

Movie Information:

Title: A Painted House, based on the novel by the same name written by John Grisham

Director: Patrick Sheane Duncan

Distributor: Hallmark Hall of Fame

Performers: Scott Glenn, Arija Bareikis, Robert Sean Leonard, Melinda Dillon and Logan Lerman

Copyright: 2003

Screenwriter: Alfonso Arau