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.
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
Kevin Carroll
as Pegus
Jamaal Carter
as Phillip
