Cornbread, Earl and Me

1974

95 Min

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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DIR Joseph Manduke

CAST Laurence Fishburne, Madge Sinclair, Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Bernie Casey, Keith Wilkes

Synopsis

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player (Keith Wilkes) has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel &NFi;Hog Butcher&NFi_; by Ronald Fair. The film marks Laurence Fishburne’s screen debut. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, this was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the “blaxploitation” craze.