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Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
Directed by Joseph Manduke
Overview
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.
Rated PG | Length 95 minutes
Actors
Laurence Fishburne | Tierre Turner | Jamaal Wilkes | Moses Gunn | Rosalind Cash | Bernie Casey | Antonio Fargas | Stack Pierce | Erik Kilpatrick | Madge Sinclair | Stefan Gierasch | Charles Lampkin | Vince Martorano | Logan Ramsey | Thalmus Rasulala | Bill Henderson | Randy Martin | Hal Baylor | J. Jay Saunders