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If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band (1972)
Directed by Fred Coe
Overview
Life in a black ghetto isn’t easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit. Growing up among drug pushers, prostitutes, and pimps, Billie Jean still has some things going for her: fierce pride, a loyal friend named Fish, and, at last, enough savings to visit her father 1200 miles away in prison.
Length 73 minutes
Actors
Laurence Fishburne | Moses Gunn | Albert Hall | James Broderick | John Marriott | Dots Johnson | Haywood Nelson | Arthur French | George Miles | Georgia Burke | Dick Sabol | Joseph Ray | Sonny Jim Gaines | Jim Pelham | Donna M. Bryan