The Corner

On the front lines of America’s drug war, one family is living in the crossfire.

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Release Date

4/16/2000

Runtime

6 eps, 360 mins

Genres

Drama Crime

Overview

The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries 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, his mother Fran Boyd, and his father Gary McCullough, as well as other addicts and low-level drug dealers caught up in the twin-engine economy of heroin and cocaine.

Status

Ended

Original Language

English

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An unflinching documentary-style chronicle of life in West Baltimore's open-air drug markets, following real people caught in cycles of addiction and desperation. It watches with patient, almost clinical observation as systems of poverty and substance abuse grind through multiple lives across a single year.