Cornbread, Earl and Me
Cornbread, Earl and Me

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- 68/100 based on 951 votes
  • Released: 1975
  • Runtime: 95 mins
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  • Studio: American International Pictures
  • Genres: Drama

Nathaniel "Cornbread" Hamilton was the black urban dream and a hero to youngsters Wilford Robinson and Earl Carter. Shortly before he would have become the first man from his community to go to college, he demonstrates his scholarship-winning running ability to his friends and admirers in the neighborhood. At the same time, the police are on a manhunt for an armed rapist. They mistake Cornbread for the rapist and shoot him dead in the street. In the aftermath of the community... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Cornbread, Earl and Me:

Moses Gunn
Rosalind Cash
Bernie Casey
Madge Sinclair
Laurence Fishburne
Thalmus Rasulala

Full Plot Details

Nathaniel "Cornbread" Hamilton was the black urban dream and a hero to youngsters Wilford Robinson and Earl Carter. Shortly before he would have become the first man from his community to go to college, he demonstrates his scholarship-winning running ability to his friends and admirers in the neighborhood. At the same time, the police are on a manhunt for an armed rapist. They mistake Cornbread for the rapist and shoot him dead in the street. In the aftermath of the community's shattered dream, and in the face of an intimidating police cover-up, Wilford is determined not to betray the memory of his hero.

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User Review - 10/10 by Colter LYou got to love this movie. Lawrence Fishburne as a kid actor...Come On!
User Review - 10/10 by Shar?noh my gosh i was so in love with Jamaal Wilkes i named my son after him. years later i got the movie for Christmas and the classic "they killed cornbread?" was born
User Review - 10/10 by Amber Hthis movie is about standing up when nobody else will.
User Review - 10/10 by Markus Sanother classic what happen to all the good movies
User Review - 10/10 by Ben VI actually didn't watch this movie. Gave it 5 stars because it has cornbread in the title
User Review - 10/10 by Private UTell me you didn't almost cry when they shot Cornbread and I'll say you was Lying... Yall know they had no right to kill Cornbread
User Review - 10/10 by Alexander C"They Killed Cornbread...He wasn't doing nothing...and they killed him." Larry Fishburne's first movie at 14 and I LOVE IT!
User Review - 8/10 by Annette LThis film was something that hung around on the TiVo forever, but when I finally watched it I was immediately struck by the desire to run out and buy a copy, as it's a very well made look at the corruption that rears its head when a rising basketball star and neighborhood inspiration is shot down due to a case of mistaken identity. Recommended.
User Review - 8/10 by Bill BThis film was something that hung around on the TiVo forever, but when I finally watched it I was immediately struck by the desire to run out and buy a copy, as it's a very well made look at the corruption that rears its head when a rising basketball star and neighborhood inspiration is shot down due to a case of mistaken identity. Recommended.
User Review - 8/10 by Stuart KDirected by Joseph Manduke (Jump (1973), Vengeance (1977) and Beatlemania (1981)), and based on the 1966 novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. The book was written during a time of racial tension in the United States, by the time the film was made, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had long been passed, but racial tension still remained. This family drama shows what was going on at the time. In a gritty urban neighbourhood, Nathaniel Hamilton (Keith Wilkes) is an aspiring basketball played nicknamed Cornbread, and he's about to be the first kid from the neighbourhood to enrol in college on an athletic scholarship, which pleases his young friends Earl Carter (Tierre Turner) and Wilford Robinson (Laurence Fishburne). But all that comes crashing down when Cornbread is accidentally mistaken for a criminal by the local police, and is brutally gunned down in cold blood. Earl and Wilford are devastated, and a riot ensues, but the police try to cover up the murder by using intimidation to make sure no witnesses take the stand. It's a sort of African-American version of a Ken Loach film, very gritty and it doesn't flinch away from the urban grime and filth. It has some good performances, and it was Fishburne's debut performance too. But it's a film which had it's finger on the pulse of African-American attitudes in urban slums at that time.

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