Film · 1977

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

Name: A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Director: Ralph Nelson
Genre: Drama
Released: 1977-12-14

107 min · Directed by Ralph Nelson

Drama

5.910
ratings

A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.

Cast

Cicely Tyson

Sweets

Paul Winfield

Butler

Larry B. Scott

Benjie

Helen Martin

Mrs. Bell

Glynn Turman

Nigeria

David Groh

Cohen

Kevin Hooks

Tiger

K

Kenneth Green

Jimmy Lee

Harold Sylvester

Doctor

Erin Blunt

Carwell

Crew

Director: Ralph Nelson
Producer: Robert B. Radnitz
Writer: Alice Childress
Casting: Jack G. Roberts
Editor: Fred A. Chulack
Cinematography: Frank Stanley
Composer: Tom McIntosh

Details

Studios: Radnitz/Mattel Productions
Countries: United States of America
Languages: English
Release: December 14, 1977

Themes

sacrificeheroinhopeghettodrugsfamilyhardship

More Like This

Requiem for a Dream

2000

Beautiful Boy

2018

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

2005

The Baker

2023

The Principal

1987

Things We Lost in the Fire

2007

Menace II Society

1993

Echo Valley

2025

Ben Is Back

2018

Braven

2018

The Basketball Diaries

1995

Bound by Honor

1993