Criterion DVD Year 2000 Video Release 2002-03-19 Genre Drama MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 89 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in the decaying rural South must confront a tangle of difficult choices. An ambitiously constructed, elegantly photographed meditation on adolescence, the first full-length film by director David Gordon Green features remarkable performances from an award-winning ensemble cast. George Washington is a startling and distinct work of contemporary American independent cinema. Director David Gordon Green Cast David Gordon Green; Candace Evanofski; Donald Holden; Damien Jewan Lee; Curtis Cotton III; Paul Schneider