A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1978) (A Hero Ain\'t Nothin\' But a Sandwich)

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Directed by

Ralph Nelson

Starring (View all)

Cicely Tyson
Sweets

Paul Winfield
Butler

Larry B. Scott
Benjie

Helen Martin
Mrs. Bell

Glynn Turman
Nigeria

David Groh
Cohen

Kevin Hooks
Tiger

Harold Sylvester
Doctor

Written by

Alice Childress
novel

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Description: Thirteen-year-old Benjie lives with his mother and grandmother in Watts, California. He's a bright boy burdened by the absence of his father who deserted the family. When Butler, his mother's lover, seeks to befriend him, Benjie tightens up. Trying to protect himself from the hurt of what he thinks will be another abandonment, he constructs emotional barriers. Benjie finds in heroin and hiding place and an escape from his problems. Eventually the habit gets the best of him — eating a black hole into his studies, disrupting his life at home, and forcing him to steal, even from his grandmother. A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sand ... (more)

Release date: 3 February 1978