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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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I think the label of blaxploitation for this film is quite unfair- it's heartfelt, various Black and White characters are shown as flawed rather than the "us vs. them" mentality of many racially charged films of that era- and you deeply care about what happens to everyone involved. Plus Moses Gunn is as fine an actor as ever set foot on the silver screen. Just thoroughly enjoyed it in spite of low budget feel and some clichéd moments. I even got choked up at times. Well worth seeing. Additionally, I was quite saddened to find that so many of the cast died relatively young. For a film from the mid 70s, there's an awful lot of actors in this movie no longer with us.
- evan_ginzburg
- Aug 21, 2010
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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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