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:
26 September 1980
The wealthy doctor Shashikant marries a servant girl, the much-loved Gauri. When an old flame makes makes contact with Shashikant, pride jeopardizes their marriage and the lives of their children.
27 April 1980
The director of an art museum in Thuringia and an art dealer from Constance entered into an extremely lucrative business relationship.
20 May 1980
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda.
10 September 1980
A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
11 January 1980
At the beginning is a suicide attempt by sculptor Jiří Malek, which is foiled by a thief hidden in his apartment.
07 October 1980
Variety special hosted by Barbara Eden, Gloria Swanson, and Brooke Shields that celebrates the men whose sex appeal transcends age and the ages.
10 March 1980
A married landlord has an affair with a young man renting out one of her apartments in Greece.
07 February 1980
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
27 June 1980
In an elevator, a group of young people are in conversation...
02 January 1980
The advantages and pleasures of crossing the channel by Hovercraft. In this film a sales executive, with his car and engineering samples, travels to Lille for a business appointment; and a family goes to Paris for a holiday.
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