Carbon Copy

1981

Action / Comedy / Drama

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 39% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 39% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 3664 3.7K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Michael Schultz Photo
Michael Schultz

Top cast

Denzel Washington Photo
Denzel Washington as Roger Porter
Greg Finley Photo
Greg Finley as 1st Guard
Patrick Wright Photo
Patrick Wright as Truck Driver
Tom Poston Photo
Tom Poston as Reverend Hayworth
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745.93 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
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1.43 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rosemary-mchugh4 7 / 10

Liked it a lot...don't understand low rating here

Just watched on Bounce TV, and ancillary channel available here in NYC to those of us "cable-less" free TV antenna viewers.I thought it was a very well done comic treatment of a very real American issue. Racism is never dead, it just hides under the surface like an indolent disease. I thought George Segal did a fine job. Jack Warden played the rich, controlling, pragmatic racist father in law to tee. And then there is Denzel. I watched the opening credits and saw "and Introducing Denzel Washington". How could ANYONE resist that?? Maybe I am just blinded by love ;) but the talent was just so obvious in this very early performance.
Reviewed by merklekranz 6 / 10

You've seen it all before..... but it still works .............

One part "Fire Sale" ( White family adopting Black child ), one part "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" ( the culture clash surprise ), one part "Life Stinks" ( the reality of life on the streets ), and you pretty much have "Carbon Copy". The movie can stand on it's own however, because George Segal and Denzel Washington compliment each other nicely as mismatched Father and Son. There are a number of laugh out loud moments, and some social lessons too. If you go in not expecting too much in the way of logic, you will not be disappointed. I think George Segal is very underrated as a comedy actor. Just take a look at "Where's Poppa?" if you disagree. - MERK
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