Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)

6.7/10 • 95 min • Drama

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.

Cast

Moses Gunn

Benjamin Blackwell

Rosalind Cash

Bernie Casey

Officer Larry Atkins

Madge Sinclair

Laurence Fishburne

Wilford Robinson

Thalmus Rasulala

Antonio Fargas

Logan Ramsey

Charles Lampkin

Stefan Gierasch

Stack Pierce

Jamaal Wilkes

Nathaniel 'Cornbread' Hamilton

Erik Kilpatrick

Bill Henderson

Hal Baylor

J. Jay Saunders

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