| Release Date: | Mar 1998 |
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Awards: | 1 win & 6 nominations |
| Cast: | Laurence Fishburne (Socrates Fortlow), Daniel Williams (Darryl), Bill Cobbs (Right Burke), Natalie Cole (Iula Brown), Laurie Metcalf (Halley Grimes), Alan Wilder (Anton Crier), Cicely Tyson (Luvia), Bridgid Coulter (Corina M'Shalla), Bill Nunn (Howard M'Shalla), Isaiah Washington (Wilfred), Bill Duke (Blackbird Wills), Kevin Carroll (Pegus), Jamaal Carter (Phillip), John Toles-Bey (Stoney Wiley), Brooke Marie Bridges (Winnie M'Shalla) |
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.
