Carbon Copy
1981
Action / Comedy / Drama

Carbon Copy
1981
Action / Comedy / Drama
Plot summary
A middle-aged married wealthy white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a working-class black teen-age son who wants to be adopted into the almost-exclusively-white upper-middle-class community of San Marino, California.
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You've seen it all before..... but it still works .............
Smart and funny, great debut for Denzel Washington
Carbon Copy was previously unknown to me but recommended by a friend of mine. I'm a fan of Denzel Washington's work and to see him in a comedy, I figured why not. It has certain similarities to Trading Places as a riches to rags story. George Segal plays a successful white yuppie executive type who's life gets turned upside down when he discovers he has a black son that he won't turn his back on. He ends up losing his job and assets because of it and does the best he can do to deal with the situation. The film deals with a lot of race and class issues that are not much different and relevant today. The race situation is a little better, but we have a ways to go with that in America. Another theme of the movie is selling out has consequences and it is much better to stick to your principles than to take the more financially lucrative situation. Even with some of these themes , Carbon Copy is a comedy and a funny one that doesn't come across as preachy or pretentious.