Cornbread, Earl and Me

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.

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  Moses Gunn

  Benjamin Blackwell
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  Rosalind Cash

  Sarah Robinson
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  Bernie Casey

  Officer Larry Atkins
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  Madge Sinclair

  Leona Hamilton
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  Laurence Fishburne

  Wilford Robinson
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  Thalmus Rasulala

  Charlie
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  Antonio Fargas

  One-Eye
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  Logan Ramsey

  Deputy Coroner
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  Charles Lampkin

  Fred Jenkins
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  Stefan Gierasch

  Sgt. Danaher