The Corner
On the front lines of America’s drug war, one family is living in the crossfire in The Wire creator David Simon’s The Corner released by HBO Home Entertainment on DVD on 6 April 2009.
Now for the first time, fans can experience the hard-hitting six part series that inspired the smash hit The Wire from creators David Simon and Ed Burns.
As well as containing many similar storylines The Corner also features many of the main actors from The Wire, including Clarke Peters, Lance Reddick and Corey Parker Robinson. The critically acclaimed miniseries won three Emmy Awards®, for Outstanding Miniseries, Direction and Writing.
Every city in America has a 'corner.' To parents, it’s a place their children should avoid. To cops, it’s the front line on what has become known as the 'war on drugs.'
But to the addicts who go there, it’s the most vital piece of real estate in their desperate day-to-day-lives.
The Corner is based upon the non-fiction book 'The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood,' by Baltimore-based journalists and now television legends David Simon and Ed Burns. It presents the world of Fayette Street in West Baltimore, using real names and real events.
Acclaimed actor Charles S. Dutton, who grew up on the same East Baltimore streets, directs the miniseries, which chronicles the cycle of a year at the corner through the lives of 15-year-old DeAndre McCullough, his mother Fran and father Gary, along with the lives of their friends, their enemies and their neighbours.
Often at the forefront, sometimes in the background, but always present in their lives is the world of illicit drugs 'heroin and cocaine' the need that fuels the business and the business that fuels the need.
In this powerful, tense drama of personal struggle, while the story progresses, each episode focuses on a character or characters, as they fight for survival in an inner city where even the buildings they live in are clinging to life.
The Corner evolves, changes, challenges and transforms as it builds towards an ending that is so powerful and revealing, it could only be real.