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.

Cast

Laurence Fishburne

as Wilford Robinson

Tierre Turner

as Earl Carter

Jamaal Wilkes

as Nathaniel 'Cornbread' Hamilton

Moses Gunn

as Benjamin Blackwell

Rosalind Cash

as Sarah Robinson

Bernie Casey

as Officer Larry Atkins

Antonio Fargas

as One-Eye

Stack Pierce

as Sam Hamilton

Erik Kilpatrick

as Ace

Madge Sinclair

as Leona Hamilton

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