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:
19 September 1980
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon confronts manipulative agents and imperialist conspiracies.
18 January 1980
Vinod Khanna rescues the purse of a pretty girl, Leena chandavarkar which was robbed by two robbers. Vinod & Leena meet and fall in love.
27 August 1980
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance.
01 May 1980
1934, Germany. The ten-year-old Peter lives in a small town with his parents. His father, an underground Communist, is arrested.
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.
16 May 1980
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
27 June 1980
In an elevator, a group of young people are in conversation...
08 January 1980
When kidnappers abduct his teenage daughter, Sue, industrialist Vincent Craig could easily raise the ransom money.
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