The Pocketbook 1980

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Drama

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)

Homepage https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/films/pocketbook
Release Date 1980-01-01
Runtime 13m
Directors Billy Woodberry, Charles Burnett, Gary Gaston, Mario Da Silva
Producer Billy Woodberry
Writers Billy Woodberry, Langston Hughes