| The Education of Sonny Carson
|  Based on the bestselling autobiography of civil rights leader Sonny Carson, Paramount's 1972 film The Education of Sonny Carson is a coming-of-age story set on the mean streets of Brooklyn, where street gangs run rampant, drugs are a necessity, and the police brutalize suspects for little or no reason. Although the film is supposed to be a snapshot of Carson's youth during the 1950s, and the film is seemingly set in the 1970s, The Education of Sonny Carson carries a timeless quality that makes it a still-relevant look at youth gangs today.
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