- HD 1080
- Runtime: 95m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Joseph Manduke
- Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Tierre Turner, Jamaal Wilkes, Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash
- keywords: police brutality, coming of age, courtroom, basketball player
- Slogan: He Had the Lightest Touch in a Heavy Town.
- The Cornbread, Earl and Me is featured in the top rankings of 1975
- #25 in Top Drama Movies of 1975
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.
