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Year: 2008
USA: Indican Pictures
Cast: Tyson Beckford, Lynn Whitfield, Glynn Turman, Reginald
T Dorsey, Linara Washington, James Russo, Bruce McGill, Steven
Williams, Lou Myers, Willard E Pugh, Tariq Alexander, David
Blackwell, Tony Bottorff, Tish Brandt, Jana Camp, Terrence Flack,
Pablo D Flores, John Hambrick, Clyde Jones, Tommy G Kendrick, Katina
Latrell, Lauren Lee, Ryan Lee, Connie Maynord, Justin Malloy, Garry
Peters
Director: Andrew P Jones
Country: USA
USA: 99 mins
USA Rated: PG for thematic elements, language throughout,
some violence and smoking
USA Release Date: 11 June 2010 (Limited Release)
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Synopsis
Ex-con Homer Hobbs (Tyson Beckford) returns home to a bleak urban
town during the depths of the Great Depression and discovers that
life on the outside is crueller than the backbreaking injustice of a
chain gang. Given the difficult times and dire straits most people
are in he has no prospects of a job and no hope of improving his lot
in life.
Homer is drawn to four strangers: Benny, the street hustler; the
suicidal Clarence; Gracie, the despairing owner of a boarding house;
and Lucy, who conceals a mysterious past. Sunday nights are the
highlight of their grim week, when in a dingy hall, the men in the
neighborhood don their finest attire to compete in an unusual
fashion contest. The big winner will go home with the $5 dollar
prize and feel like a king, and forget the misery of the Depression
just for an evening.
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