In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in 16mm, adapts Langston Hughes’ short story, Thank You, Ma’am, and features music by Leadbelly, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. (Ross Lipman)
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Billy Woodberry Director
Charles Burnett Director of Photography
Gary Gaston Director of Photography
Mario Da Silva Director of Photography
Langston Hughes Original Story
Billy Woodberry Producer
Brazil 08 June 2023
United States 22 October 2011
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1980:
30 October 1980
Felipe goes home for a holiday and discovers that everything in town has changed in his absence; old don So-and-so is running around forcing people to sell their farms to him and killing them if they refuse.
01 January 1980
Red Boxing Gloves / Orange Kitchen Gloves was shot in 1980 in Polavision, an instant movie format that the videocassette made obsolete.
25 April 1980
The story of Jacob Fabian, a somewhat liberal Berlin advertising copywriter who witnesses the collapse of the prewar German society during the 1930s.
01 January 1980
Industrialist Sood's manager Vishal gets expelled for siphoning off money from the company. To seek revenge, he kidnaps Babloo, one of Sood's twin sons, and inducts him into the criminal world.
01 April 1980
Lovers Edgar and Lucia dream of happiness, but Lucia's brother Henry is preparing her marriage to another man.
18 November 1980
Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. Based on an actual case, this play tells the story of her fight for compensation.
11 January 1980
At the beginning is a suicide attempt by sculptor Jiří Malek, which is foiled by a thief hidden in his apartment.
01 January 1980
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff tells her friend Levin Schücking about her recently completed story Die Judenbuche and begins by reading from the manuscript.
05 February 1980
Symphonie mixes fiction with reality. The author, Romain Schneid, tells the story of his own claustrophobia in front of the camera when, when he was 12 years old, hiding as a Jew during the German occupation, he could not leave a tiny apartment.
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