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The Pocketbook

Drama | 1980-01-01 | United States of America

IMDB5.5 / 10

Budget$0

Budget$0

Runtime13 min.

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)

UCLA School of Film and Television

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