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Bookmark this pageA Piece of the Action (1977)
Director: Sidney Poitier
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From Time Out Film Guide
Poitier and Cosby, successful thieves and pointedly more honest than the organisations they rob, suddenly acquire a social conscience when blackmailed by a retired cop (Jones) into doing time at the local community centre and using their knowhow to prepare a bunch of dead end kids for society. Instead of usefully contemplating the subversive implications of such an arrangement, A Piece of the Action abandons the idea that society's there for the taking in favour of wholesale sincerity and homespun philosophy. The result is best described as integration comedy: a kind of black version of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: Sidney Poitier
Producer: Melville Tucker
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas, Hope Clark, Tracy Reed, Titos Vandis, Frances Foster, Jason Evers, Marc Lawrence full cast
Duration: 135 mins
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