The Education of Sonny Carson

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The Education of Sonny Carson ★★½ 1974 (R)

Chilling look at the tribulations of a black youth living in a Brooklyn ghetto amid drugs, prostitution, crime, and other forms of vice. Based on Sonny Carson's autobiography. Still pertinent some 20 years after its theatrical release. 104m/C VHS, DVD . Rony Clanton, Don Gordon, Paul Benjamin; D: Michael Campus.

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