Always Outnumbered

Plot

Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) directed this Walter Mosley script adaptation of Mosley's short story collection, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. Ex-con Socrates Fortlow (Laurence Fishburne) returns to L.A., looks for work, becomes friends with Right Burke (Bill Cobbs), is told he's too old for a construction job, helps youngster Darryl (Daniel Williams), and romances cafe-owner Iula Brown (Natalie Cole). Socrates provides a moral uplift to the neighborhood, while Burke's voiceover narration has a Sunset Boulevard twist. The TV movie premiered March 21, 1998 on HBO. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

Cast

• Laurence Fishburne - Socrates Fortlow
• Bill Cobbs - Right Burke
• Natalie Cole - Iula Brown
• Bill Duke - Blackbird Wills
• Laurie Metcalf - Halley Grimes

Cicely Tyson - Luvia; Daniel Williams - Darryl; Alan Wilder - Anton Crier; Bill Nunn - Howard M'Shalla; Bridgid Coulter - Corina M'Shalla; Isaiah Washington; Kevin Carroll; Art Evans; Jamaal Carter; Brooke Marie Bridges; John Gavigan; Perry Moore; Sammi Rotibi; Danny Goldring; Dan Martin; Paula Jai Parker; Vonte Sweet; Kelvin Garvanne; Crystal LaPrie; Mykel Taylor; Mary-Michelle Trinity; Erika LaVonn; John Wesley; John Cothran, Jr.; Sonya Haynes; Greg Bird; Norm Wilson; Regan Forman; Zaid Farid; Darren O'Bannon; Maurice Blake; Lawrence Hales; David Gramling; Jason Young; John Toles-Bey - Stoney Wiley

Credit

John Brace - Casting, Linda Lowy - Casting, Jeffrey Downer - Co-producer, Michael Apted - Director, Rick Shaine - Editor, Laurence Fishburne - Executive Producer, Walter Mosley - Executive Producer, Michael Franti - Composer (Music Score), Keith Brian Burns - Production Designer, John Bailey - Cinematographer, Jonathon Ker - Producer, Anne-Marie Mackay - Producer, Rob Janiger - Sound/Sound Designer, Walter Mosley - Screenwriter, Walter Mosley - Short Story Author

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