The Corner

Name: The Corner
Genre: Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
Released: April 16, 2000
Rating: 90
Cast: Lance Reddick, Khandi Alexander, T.K. Carter, Sean Nelson

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HBO | Release Date: April 16, 2000

Starring: Lance Reddick, Khandi Alexander, T.K. Carter, Sean Nelson

Summary: Based on the nonfiction book "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood", by journalists David Simon and Edward Burns, The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The Corner tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. ItBased on the nonfiction book "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood", by journalists David Simon and Edward Burns, The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The Corner tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year old DeAndre McCullough (Sean Nelson, "THE WOOD"), his mother Fran Boyd (Khandi Alexander), and his father Gary McCullough (T.K. Carter), as well as other addicts and low-level drug dealers caught up in the twin-engine economy of heroin and cocaine.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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S1:E6. Everyman's Blues
Air Date: May 21, 2000
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S1:E5. Corner Boy's Blues
Air Date: May 14, 2000
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S1:E4. Dope Fiend Blues
Air Date: May 7, 2000

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100

Robert Bianco

Sep 19, 2013

Season 1 Review: It is also stunning, compelling and thoroughly, empathetically human. [14 Apr 2000, p.11E]

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Matthew Gilbert

Sep 19, 2013

Season 1 Review: While The Corner may sound like just more preachy TV cliches about drug abuse and African-American self-destruction, it is so much more than that. It is about the life and death forces at war in that inner-city staple, The Corner, and it is a jarring introduction to the people behind the statistics and the cliches. I hope it finds an audience, despite its rawness. No one ever said great drama had to be pretty. [14 Apr 2000, p.D1]

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Mike Duffy

Sep 19, 2013

Season 1 Review: An unflinching and deeply affecting portrait of American tragedy. [14 Apr 2000, p.4F]

Phil Gallo

Sep 19, 2013

Season 1 Review: Despair and hopelessness form the intersection at which Charles Dutton studies a drug-addled world that's painfully real and overwhelming. [17 Apr 2000, p.37]

Matt Zoller Seitz

Sep 19, 2013

Season 1 Review: But what's amazing, maybe even revolutionary, about The Corner is this: as its narrative plays out in six laid-back, detail-packed, one-hour installments, you come to see that all the major characters don't belong in this place, in this life. [16 Apr 2000, p.1]

Hal Boedeker

Sep 19, 2013

Season 1 Review: The Corner, which is more daring than "The Sopranos," deserves some of the critical hosannas showered on the mob series. [16 Apr 2000, p.F1]

Caryn James

Sep 19, 2013

Season 1 Review: Assuming the perspectives of its characters, the series avoids cliches and condescension; the performances are remarkably free of the cheap mannerisms actors often resort to when playing addicts. But this insiders' view is still undermined by the tone of a cautionary tale. The fact that the series makes a plea to understand the characters' humanity, rather than a judgment about them, doesn't make it less didactic. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

90
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: April 16, 2000
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  S1:E6. Everyman's Blues
  Air Date: May 21, 2000
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  S1:E5. Corner Boy's Blues
  Air Date: May 14, 2000
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  S1:E4. Dope Fiend Blues
  Air Date: May 7, 2000
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  S1:E3. Fran's Blues
  Air Date: April 30, 2000
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  S1:E2. DeAndre's Blues
  Air Date: April 23, 2000
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  S1:E1. Gary's Blues
  Air Date: April 16, 2000