Carbon Copy (1981) on Netflix
Walter Whitney is a married, wealthy corporate executive in San Marino, California. Seventeen-year-old Roger Porter appears at his office and says he is Walter's long-lost son.
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Plot summary
A corporate executive in San Marino, California, Walter Whitney is married to Vivian and shares a house with her and her daughter Mary Ann. He is secretly Jewish, and his father-in-law and boss, Nelson Longhurst, once made him change his surname from Wiesenthal. Years earlier Walter was engaged to Lorraine Porter, and Nelson made clear that continuing the relationship would cost Walter his job, so Walter wrote asking to put things on hold. Lorraine never answered. Seventeen-year-old Roger Porter comes to Walter's office and says Lorraine was his mother and Walter his father; Roger has the letter, which he got from his Aunt Clara after Lorraine died. Walter asks Vivian to take Roger in for the summer as a foster son.
Cast
- Kenneth Whiteas Burly Man
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Carbon Copy (1981)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Denzel Washington made his film acting debut in Carbon Copy, starring alongside George Segal, Susan Saint James and Jack Warden.
- Carbon Copy was the first film produced by RKO Pictures in 23 years, after the studio declined in the 1950s and stopped making new films.
- The film adapts Stanley Shapiro's 1970 play The Engagement Baby, which starred Barry Nelson and Clifton Davis and closed on Broadway after just four performances.
- Carbon Copy initially received an R rating from the MPAA, but this was reduced to a PG rating on appeal.
