Summary
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.
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Cast
Laurence Fishburne
Socrates Fortlow
Bill Cobbs
Right Burke
Natalie Cole
Iula Brown
Laurie Metcalf
Halley Grimes
Cicely Tyson
Luvia
Bridgid Coulter
Corina M'Shalla
Bill Nunn
Howard M'Shalla
Isaiah Washington
Wilfred
Bill Duke
Blackbird Wills
Kevin Carroll
Pegus
John Toles-Bey
Stoney Wiley
Sammi Rotibi
Marlow Bitta
Art Evans
Markham Peale
Danny Goldring
Parker
Dan Martin
Weems
Paula Jai Parker
Melodie
Vonte Sweet
Shep Fegel
Kelvin Garvanne
Lover
John Wesley
Store Manager
John Cothran
Man In Community Center
Norman D. Wilson
Domino Player #2
Alan Wilder
Anton Crier