The Corner (HBO Miniseries)
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Actor: Clarke Peters, Glenn Plummer, Khandi Alexander, Sean Nelson, T.K. CarterBrand: CARTER,T.K.
Editor: Bill Pankow
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 360 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO Video
Movie Reviews of The Corner (HBO Miniseries)
Movie Review: Brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this series. I am from Baltimore, so it was very real and a problem that is never going to change. The creators and writers and crew were great. I worked on this series and really saw a lot about my own city I never new, very eye opening,
Kathleen Weber-Ray
Summary of The Corner (HBO Miniseries)
A family living in a Baltimore ghetto struggle for normalcy in a place surrounded by illicit drugs and behaviour.Genre: Feature Film Urban Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 22-JUL-2003
Media Type: DVD
The bleak reality of drug addiction is captured with unflinching authenticity in The Corner, an excellent, reality-based HBO miniseries. Having lived on the streets of West Baltimore, Maryland, where this compelling drama takes place, actor-director Charles S. Dutton knows the territory, physically, socially, and emotionally, and his compassionate approach is vital to the series' success. Dutton cares for his characters deeply enough to give them a realistic shred of hope, even when hope is consistently dashed by the ravages of addiction. This is, at its root, a family tragedy, focusing on errant father Gary (T.K. Carter, in a heartbreaking performance) a once-successful investor trapped in a tailspin of heroin dependency. His estranged wife Fran (Khandi Alexander) was the first to get hooked, and she's struggling to get clean, while their 15-year-old son DeAndre (Sean Nelson, from the indie hit Fresh) deals drugs, temporarily avoiding their deadly allure while facing the challenge of premature fatherhood.
Through revealing flashbacks and numerous local characters, we see the explicit fallout of addiction, and while violence occasionally erupts, its constant threat is secondary to Dutton's dramatic vision, which remains steadfastly alert to the humanity and neglected potential of these lost and searching souls. The Corner is, essentially, the civilian flipside of HBO's equally laudable series The Wire, which approaches a similar neighborhood from a police-squad perspective. Performances are uniformly superb, details are uncannily perfect, and for all of its human horror, The Corner is riveting, not depressing. A closing interview with the characters' real-life counterparts bears witness to the fact that these lives--with inevitable exceptions--need not be lost forever. --Jeff Shannon
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