If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band

5.0 1972 73 min
TV Movie Drama Comedy

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 stil…

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Director
Fred Coe
Writer
Stanley L. Gray

Cast

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Donna M. Bryan Billie Jean Sims
James Broderick Trick
Georgia Burke Grannie
Laurence Fishburne Fish
Sonny Jim Gaines Mr. Sims
Arthur French Customer
Moses Gunn Mr. Miller
Albert Hall T-Bone Sims
Dots Johnson Jim
John Marriott Jessie
George Miles Shake-a-Hand
Haywood Nelson Ronnie
Jim Pelham Eddie
Joseph Ray Walkin' Willie
Dick Sabol Prison Guard

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