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Carbon Copy is a 1981 comedy film, directed by Michael Schultz.

Plot

Roger Porter (Washington) is the long-lost black son of Walter Whitney (Segal), a respectable businessman who lives in the all-white community of San Marino, California.

Once Roger turns up at Walter's office, it turns out that he is the result of Walter's relationship with a black woman, who is now dead. Walter's father-in-law had warned him that the relationship would be harmful to his career, so he broke it off.

Walter attempts to help Roger by telling his wife Vivian (Saint James) that he wants to adopt him. She accepts, but soon regrets the decision and ends up kicking Walter out. Her father also fires him, taking his car and benefits in the process. Penniless, he and Roger check into a motel, and later move into an apartment. Walter ends up as a manual labourer, shovelling horse manure.

The final ten minutes makes the transition from comedy to drama, where Walter has to either accept that Roger is his son, or alienate him in order to salvage his position in society.

Tagline: Any resemblance between Father and Son is purely hysterical.

Main cast

George Segal
— Walter Whitney
Susan Saint James
— Vivian Whitney
Jack Warden
— Nelson Longhurst
Dick Martin — Victor Bard
Denzel Washington
— Roger Porter
Paul Winfield
— Bob Garvey
Macon McCalman — Tubby Wederholt

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