Carbon Copy

Carbon Copy

Any resemblance between father and son is purely hysterical.

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Release Date

8/6/1981

Runtime

92 mins

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$6,000,000

Revenue

$9,566,593

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A fish-out-of-water comedy about a wealthy white executive confronted with his working-class Black teenage son, navigating the collision between two worlds with equal parts humor and uncomfortable truth about race and belonging.

Mood

Bittersweet

Themes

FamilyIdentityRaceClass

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Steady

Look

Naturalistic

Structure

Two-hander

Heads up

Racial violence

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