Main Cast: Ricky Busker, Darius McCrary, Robert Joy, Robert Prosky, Jerzy Skolimowski
Release Year: 1987
Country: US
Run Time: 95 minutes
Plot
Consumed by grief when his father is felled by a heart attack, 11-year-old Obie (Ricky Busker) runs away from his white, upper-class surroundings. He ends up in a particularly dismal Chicago ghetto neighborhood where, after enduring a beating administered by gang members, he is befriended by streetwise black youth Jeremy "Scam" Henderson (Darius McCrary). The two become partners in crime, leading to a deadly situation involving a pair of professional hit men. Just when it seems things can't get any worse, they do. Robert Prosky co-stars as a slimy pawnbroker. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Paul Winfield - Johnnie Red; Jim Antonio - Uncle Harry; Wilbert Bradley - Social Service Man; Pauline Brailsford - Science Teacher; Olivia Cole - Mrs. Newton; Ron Dean - 2nd Policeman; David Dunard - Louisiana Cop; Ellen Geer - Bar Waitress; Tim Halligan - 3rd Policeman; Oscar Jordan - One of the Guys; Janet MacLachlan - Welfare Worker; Jack Orend - Asst. Bank manager; Beah Richards - Miss Hanks, Hotel Manager; Antoine Roshell - Teen #2; Timothy Scott - Smiley; Joe Seneca - Ferryman; Dick Sollenberger - Doctor; James Spinks - Bank Guard; Michael Stoyanov - Teen #3; Brynn Thayer - Obie's Mom; Cedric Young - Ghetto Bartender; Hutton Cobb - Bible Salesman; Mitch Beasley - Duane Henderson; Andrea Bebel - Alley; Sephus Booker - Policeman; Richard Caine - 4th Policeman; Bernard Chestleigh - Social Service Man; Jeffrey Harris - Teen #1; Shirley Spiegler-Jacobs - Social Service Woman; Michael Krawic - Street Person; Elise Langan - The Waitress; Lorraine Matthews - Social Service Woman; Maria McCrary - Bank Teller; Sherry Narens - Teacher; Hank Underwood - Bartender; Ken White - Sheriff; Frank G. Rice - Counselor; Dave Adams - Deputy; Bill Hudson - Dad
Credit
Richard Bruno - Costume Designer, Robert Mandel - Director, Sheldon Kahn - Editor, Dennis Virkler - Editor, William M. Anderson - Editor, Ivan Reitman - Executive Producer, Bruce Broughton - Composer (Music Score), George Flemming - Songwriter, Billy Gale - Songwriter, James Hooker - Songwriter, Dorothy La Bostrie - Songwriter, Joe Lubin - Songwriter, Richard Penniman - Songwriter, Steve Winwood - Songwriter, Frank Carrisosa - Makeup, Wally Sxhwartz - Makeup, William Malley - Production Designer, Miroslav Ondrícek - Cinematographer, Joe Medjuck - Producer, Ivan Reitman - Producer, Michael J. Gross - Producer, Gary Baugh - Set Designer, Charles R. Pierce - Set Designer, Bundy Trinz - Set Designer, Andy Evans - Special Effects, Bob Shelley - Special Effects, Bill Randall - Sound/Sound Designer, James M. Halty - Stunts, Spike Silver - Stunts, Ziggy Elman - Featured Music, Johnny Mercer - Featured Music
