

Cornbread, Earl and Me
He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town.
6.8(16)19751h 35m2
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.
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- English
- police brutality
- coming of age
- courtroom
- basketball player
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- TheatricalPG21 May 1975
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Cornbread, Earl and Me was released on 21 May 1975.
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