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    Cornbread, Earl and Me

    Cornbread, Earl and Me

    "He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town."

    1975

    1:35:45

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    6.7/10 (11)

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    Cornbread, Earl and Me

    Genre

    Drama

    Plot

    The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.

    Director

    Joseph Manduke

    Writers

    Leonard Lamensdorf, Ronald Fair,

    Stars

    Laurence Fishburne, Tierre Turner, Jamaal Wilkes, Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash,