Overview
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.
Cast
- Laurence Fishburne as Socrates Fortlow
- Daniel Williams as Darryl
- Bill Cobbs as Right Burke
- Natalie Cole as Iula Brown
- Laurie Metcalf as Halley Grimes
- Cicely Tyson as Luvia
- Bridgid Coulter as Corina M'Shalla
- Bill Nunn as Howard M'Shalla
- Isaiah Washington as Wilfred
- Bill Duke as Blackbird Wills