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The Pocketbook

The Pocketbook

5.4 Rating
13 min 1980

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)

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Status

Released

Budget

Unknown

Revenue

Unknown

Original Language

EN

Production Companies

UCLA School of Film and Television

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