Carbon Copy

Carbon Copy

5.9IMDb Score
Released:1981-08-06
Duration:92 min
Director:Michael Schultz
Actors:Denzel Washington, George Segal, Susan Saint James, Jack Warden, Paul Winfield
Production:First City Features Ltd., Hemdale, RKO Pictures, AVCO Embassy Pictures

Overview:

A middle-aged married wealthy white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a working-class black teen-age son who wants to be adopted into the almost-exclusively-white upper-middle-class community of San Marino, California.

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