The Corner

Product Description

Import from the Netherlands which plays in English. Every city in America has a corner. To parents it's a place their children should avoid. To cops it's the front line on what has become known as the war on drugs. But to the addicts who go there it's the most vital piece of real estate in their desperate day-to-day lives. The Corner is based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by Baltimore-based journalists David Simon & Ed Burns. It presents the world of Fayette Street in West Baltimore using real names & real events. Acclaimed actor Charles S. Dutton who grew up on the same East Baltimore streets directs the miniseries which chronicles the cycle of a year at the corner through the lives of 15-year-old De Andre Mc Cullough his mother Fran & father Gary along with the lives of their friends their enemies & their neighbors. Often at the forefront sometimes in the background but always present in their lives is the world of illicit drugs
- heroin & cocaine
- the need that fuels the business & the business that fuels the need. In this powerful tense drama of personal struggle while the story progresses each episode focuses on a character or characters as they fight for survival in an inner city where even the buildings they live in are clinging to life. The Corner evolves changes challenges & transforms as it builds towards an ending that is so powerful & revealing it could only be real. 6 one-hour episodes on 2 Discs!