by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Cornbread (Keith Wilkes) is an African-American youth who strives to escape his ghetto surroundings. He does so by becoming a high school basketball star--and the idol of the other youngsters in his community. On the verge of starting college on a scholarship, Cornbread is mistakenly killed by a police officer. Keith Wilkes, who plays the title role, was in real life an all-American at UCLA. Cornbread, Earl and Me, which was based upon Ronald Fair's novel Hog Butcher, marked the big screen debut of Laurence Fishburne.
characteristics
- Inner City Blues
- High School Life
- Police
- Racism
- Urban-problems
- Racist
- African-American
- Ghetto
- Class Differences
- Basketball
- Dying
- Cop
- Dead
- Death
- Scholarship