Carbon Copy is a 1981 BritishAmerican comedy film, directed by Michael Schultz. The film stars George Segal, Susan Saint James, Jack Warden, and features Denzel Washington in his featurefilm debut.
Roger Porter Washington is the longlost black son of Walter Whitney Segal, a respectable businessman who lives in the allwhite community of San Marino, California. Walter, who is Jewish, has been hiding that fact for purposes of professional advancement in the business which his antiSemitic fatherinlaw Warden heads.Once Roger turns up at Walters office, it turns out that he is the result of Walters relationship with a black woman, who is now dead. Walters fatherinlaw had warned him that the relationship would be harmful to his career, so he broke it off. ........
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