Cornbread, Earl and Me
May 1975
95 mins
TMDB
6.7
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
Laurence Fishburne
Wilford Robinson
Tierre Turner
Earl Carter
Jamaal Wilkes
Nathaniel 'Cornbread' Hamilton
Moses Gunn
Benjamin Blackwell
Rosalind Cash
Sarah Robinson
Bernie Casey
Officer Larry Atkins
Antonio Fargas
One-Eye
Stack Pierce
Sam Hamilton
Erik Kilpatrick
Ace
Madge Sinclair
Leona Hamilton
