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If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
The story of ghetto boy and girl trying to raise money for the girl to visit her father in prison.
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- Drama
- Comedy
- TV Movie
Overview
Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit. Growing up among drug pushers, prostitutes, and pimps, Billie Jean still has some things going for her: fierce pride, a loyal friend named Fish, and, at last, enough savings to visit her father 1200 miles away in prison.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 19, 1972
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- James Broderick,Sonny Jim Gaines,Moses Gunn,Laurence Fishburne,Dots Johnson,John Marriott,George Miles,Joseph Ray,Dick Sabol,Haywood Nelsonand 5 more
- Director
- Fred Coe
- Writer
- Stanley L. Gray
- Producer
- David Susskind
- Cinematography
- Michael Lieberman,Jake Ostroff
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0255235