Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Romance
Release Year: 2010
Country: USA
Runtime:
Languages: English
Director: Tanya Hamilton
Sound: Dolby Digital, DTS
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Writing by: Tanya Hamilton – writer

Produced by: Sean Costello – producer
Sheri Davani – associate producer
Tanya Hamilton – co-producer
Katie Mustard – co-producer
Katie Mustard – line producer
Jason Orans – producer
Ron Simons – producer
Adam Spielberg – co-producer
Althunder Thompson – associate producer
Elliott Williams – associate producer

Cast: Kerry Washington – Patricia Wilson
Anthony Mackie – Marcus Washington
Wendell Pierce – David Gordon
Jamie Hector – 'DoRight' Miller
Tariq Trotter – Bostic Washington
Amari Cheatom – Jimmy Dixon
Ron Simons – Carey Ford
Whitney Wilcox – Child in kitchen
Thomas Roy – Old Man Harrison
Nakia Dillard – T.T
Jamara Griffin – Iris Wilson

Music: Nick Urata
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Plot Outline:

Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life…
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Plot:

In 1976, complex political and emotional forces are set in motion when a young man returns to the race-torn Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age during the Black Power movement.

Movie Quotes:

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Lebroz Ariel James Playing John The Lonely Pimp! Arrested by the 1970's N.Y.P.D.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Jimmy test fires the gun in the vacant lot, he cringes and turns away, inexperienced. But when the gun goes off, there is no recoil or gun smoke, only the sound of the gunshot, showing that the gunfire is sound editing; someone who never fired a gun before, especially firing with one hand, would not expect the recoil.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• The film is based on the real life story of Steven Jay Russell.
• Cameo:
  [Phillip Morris]
  In the last courtroom scene of the movie the real Phillip Morris can be seen standing next to Jim Carrey.
• While on set in New Orleans and filming at the Orleans Parish Prison, one of the extras dressed as an OPP inmate was arrested by a real OPP Jail guard after leaving the set in costume to put belongings in his personal vehicle.