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The Corner (2000)

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Running Time

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Seasons

6
Episodes

The Corner (2000)

Name: The Corner
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 2000-04-16
Rating: 6

/ 10

3 User Ratings

Running Time

1
Seasons

6
Episodes

April 16, 2000
Release Date

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Plot.

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.

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This TV Show Is About.

urban ·

baltimore ·

urban life ·

drug crime ·

drug abuse ·

urban decay ·

socially conscious ·

Miniseries

Media.

Details.

Release Date
April 16, 2000

Status
Ended

Seasons
1

Episodes
6

Running Time
1h

Content Rating
TV-MA

Genres
Drama Crime

Wiki.

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).