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A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.
Jamaal Wilkes
- Nathaniel 'Cornbread' Hamilton
- (as Keith Wilkes)
Laurence Fishburne
- Wilford Robinson
- (as Laurence Fishburne III)
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- TriviaLaurence Fishburne's film debut. He is credited as Laurence Fishburne III.
- GoofsWhen a clay pot is thrown at Officer Atkins and hits the windshield of his cruiser, it breaks. Pieces of glass hit Atkins and embed in his face. But windshields are made of safety glass and though windshields break, they keep the glass in place. So, the glass in this windshield would NOT have flown at Atkins, let alone embed in his face. He would have come out of this situation shaken but physically unharmed.
- Quotes
Wilford Robinson: ...they killed Cornbread and he wasn't doin' nothin'
[pause]
Wilford Robinson: all he was doin wuz jus goin' home...
- ConnectionsFeatured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-in Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 2 (1996)
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This is a rather well done film with great performances. Where it drops the ball is on the overdramatic music that sledgehammers the emotional tone of the more dramatic scenes.
It resists the temptation of villianizing all of the antagonists, especially the judge (which no doubt would've been portrayed as racist and corrupt in a similar film made today).
Bernie Casey (who I'll always think of as U.N Jefferson in Revenge Of The Nerds) is terrific and it's too bad I don't see him in too many films today.
Great 70's feel and the first appearance of Larry Fishburn makes this a film to check out.
It resists the temptation of villianizing all of the antagonists, especially the judge (which no doubt would've been portrayed as racist and corrupt in a similar film made today).
Bernie Casey (who I'll always think of as U.N Jefferson in Revenge Of The Nerds) is terrific and it's too bad I don't see him in too many films today.
Great 70's feel and the first appearance of Larry Fishburn makes this a film to check out.
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- Hit the Open Man
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- $800,000 (estimated)
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By what name was Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975) officially released in India in English?
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