The Corner (2000)

Directed by

Charles S. Dutton

Genre

drama television series, miniseries

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 77 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This miniseries follows a family struggling with addiction and poverty on the streets of West Baltimore. It shows their daily lives and the toll the drug trade takes on them and their community.

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What happens

The Corner is a 2000 HBO drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) by David Simon and Ed Burns, and adapted for television by David Simon and David Mills. It premiered on HBO in the United States on April 16, 2000, and concluded its six-part run on May 21, 2000. The series was released on DVD on July 22, 2003. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries in 2000. The Corner chronicles the life of a family living in poverty amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. "The corner" is the junction of West Fayette Street and North Monroe Street (U.S. Route 1) (39.289372°N 76.646848°W / 39.289372; -76.646848). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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