If You Give a Dance You Gotta Pay the Band (1972)

Life in a black ghetto isnt easy for 14yearold Billie Jean Sims who has a father in jail a blind grandmother and a brother with a drug habit Growing up among drug pushers prostitutes and pimps Billie Jean still has some things going for her fierce pride a loyal friend named Fish and at last enough savings to visit her father 1200 miles away in prison