A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich 1978  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Nelson
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Larry B. Scott, Helen Martin, Glynn Turman, David Groh, Kevin Hooks, Harold Sylvester, Bill Cobbs, Kenneth Green, Erin Blunt, Claire Brenner, Arthur French, Sheila Wills, Arnold Johnson
The focus of this film is Benjie (Larry B. Scott), a 16-year-old boy who becomes addicted to drugs. After Benjie's ghetto parents, Butler and Sweets (Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson), and his grandmother (Helen Martin) become alienated from him, Benjie relies on a social worker (Claire Brenner) for help in dealing with his addiction.
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The Keeper 1995  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joe Brewster
Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Regina Taylor, Isaach De Bankole, Ron Brice, O.L. Duke, Arthur French, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Samuel E. Wright
A law student, Paul Lamont (Giancarlo Esposito), is also a humanitarian corrections officer who bails out one of his charges, Jean Baptiste (Isaach De Bankole), and brings him home to await trial. In the interim, Paul begins to question his own beliefs in this brooding story filled with psychological underpinnings.
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| 1. A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1978)
2. The Keeper (1995)
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