Carbon Copy

About Carbon Copy

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.

Carbon Copy is a 1981 comedy film directed by Michael Schultz. At 92 minutes long, it arrived in August 1981.

Its themes are illegitimate son, parent child relationship, and california.

Denzel Washington appears as Roger Porter, George Segal as Walter Whitney, Susan Saint James as Vivian Whitney, and Jack Warden as Nelson Longhurst. The screenplay is by Stanley Shapiro. It streams on ScreenPix Amazon Channel and ScreenPix Apple TV channel in the United States.

Meet the Fockers, The Legend of Zorro, and The Lost Boys make useful companions to Carbon Copy. TMDB voters put it at 5.8 out of 10 across 70 votes and it carries a PG rating.