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The Pocketbook

Overview

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)

RATING

5.50

DIRECTOR

Billy Woodberry

COUNTRIE

United States of America

RELEASE DATE

1980

TIME

0h 13m

GENRE

Drama