CORNER, THE

Details

• Release Year: 2000
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Plot: Every city in America has a 'corner.' To parents, it's a place their children should avoid. To cops, it's the front line on what has become known as the 'war on drugs.' But to the addicts who go there, it's the most vital piece of real estate in their desperate day-to-day lives.; ; 'The Corner' is based on the nonfiction book 'The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood,' by Baltimore-based journalists David Simon and Ed Burns. It presents the world of Fayette Street in West Baltimore, using real names and real events.; ; Acclaimed actor Charles S. Dutton, who grew up on the same East Baltimore streets, directs the miniseries, which chronicles the cycle of a year at the corner through the lives of 15-year-old DeAndre McCullough, his mother Fran, and father Gary, along with the lives of their friends, their enemies, and their neighbors.; ; Often at the forefront, sometimes in the background, but always present in their lives is the world of illicit drugs - heroin and cocaine - the need that fuels the business, and the business that fuels the need.; ; In this powerful, tense drama of personal struggle, while the story progresses, each episode focuses on a character or characters, as they fight for survival in an inner city where even the buildings they live in are clinging to life.; ; 'The Corner' evolves, changes, challenges and transforms as it builds towards an ending that is so powerful and revealing, it could only be real.; ; Disc 1: 'Gary’s Blues', 'DeAndre’s Blues', 'Fran’s Blues' ; Disc 2: 'Dope Fiend Blues', 'Corner Boy Blues', 'Everyman’s Blues'
• Cast: T.K. Carter; Khandi Alexander; Sean Nelson; Clarke Peters; Glenn Plummer; Toy Connor; Maria Broom; Sylvester Lee Kirk; Corey Parker Robinson; Reg E. Cathey; WBBrown II; Jerome Ro Brooks; Larry Derr; Tyra Ferrell; Delon Browne; Neko Parham; John Epps; Brian O'Neill; Charles S. Dutton; Tasha Smith; Cyrus Farmer; Bonita L. Cartwright; Robin Michelle McClamb; Donnell Rawlings; Duane Chandler Rawlings; Derren Fuentes; Fran Boyd; Clayton LeBouef; J. Valenteen Gregg; Ron Brice; Antonio D. Charity; Robert Harley; Kathryn Kelley; Susan Duvall; Joe Laney; Terry Hamlin; Rodney Scott; E. Dawn Samuel; Krystal Morris; Bobby J. Brown; Dennis Wilson; Lance Reddick; Denise Diggs; Justin Omar Smith; Don Wallace; Larry Hull; Eugene R. Little; R. Emery Bright; Lorenzo Heard; Willette Thompson; Mia Arnice Chambers; Jacqui Allen; Chantia L. Thomas; Denise Preddy; Donyelle Brown-Parish; Robert Crenshaw; Chuck Jeffreys; Delaney Williams; Courtlon Ward; George 'Blue' Epps; Tyreeka Freamon; Yuval David; Norman Fields; Avery Kidd Waddell; Angel M. Wainwright; Brandon Price; Jade Scott Yorker; Latasha M. Hill; Cleo Reginald Pizana; Michael Ellerbee; Vivian Bang; Omar Scroggins; Gary D'Addario; Gloria Sauve; De'Ante McCullough; Stanley Boyd; Sheila Gaskins; Tammy Arnold; De'Rodd Hearns; George Mays Jr.; James J. Christy; Louis Murray; Robert F. Chew; Shenia Hatchett; David John Brown Sr.; Jay Landsman; Matthew Boylan; Robert Sparrow; Lyndon Rogers; Cloie Wyatt Taylor; Garrett Wright; Kirk Wendell Brown; Gwendolyn Briley-Strand; Stewart Stagg; Pete Burris; Mojo Gentry; Brandon Troy McMickens; Mark D. Anderson; Perry Blackmon; Robert A. Smith Jr.; Benjamin Mays; William Plummer; DeAndre McCullough; Katie Barrett; Mets Suber; Robert F. Colesberry; Richard Carter; Regi Davis; Herb Lynch; Frederick Strother; Rhonda Overby; Duntae T. Bennett; Rozwill Young; Tammie Alark; Robert Brown; Dave Trovato; Michael P. Allen; Urica Jenerette; Kay Lawal; Harold J. Abell Sr.; Tony D. Head; Bus Howard; Barbara Dutton; Dick Stilwell; Norris Davis; Leeanna Saunders; Veronica L. Boice; Eric Whaley; Christopher A. Leonard; Benay Berger; Shelley Stokes; Travis Jacobs; Bryant Sampson; Dennis Allen Davis; Pierre Parker; Raquel Tresvant; David Carr; Carolina Hoyos; Zane Hubbard; Karl Otter; Enrique Chicas; Lorenzo Johnson; Chris Ludwig; Erica Johnson; Dana Jay; David Simon; Aaron Moss; Towanda Underdue; Tené Carter Miller; Ed Burns; David Mills
• Director: Charles S. Dutton
• Runtime: 6:00
• Company: Blown Deadline Productions, Knee Deep Productions, HBO Home Video
• Media Format: Series