DVD 113 mins IMDB 5.0

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#231

Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Samuel L. Jackson	Lorenzo Council
Julianne Moore	Brenda Martin
Edie Falco	Karen Collucci
Ron Eldard	Danny Martin
William Forsythe	Boyle
Aunjanue Ellis	Felicia
Anthony Mackie	Billy Williams
Latanya Richardson	Marie
Clarke Peters	Reverend Longway
Peter Friedman	Lt. Gold

Director	Joe Roth
Producer	Scott Rudin; Richard Baratta; Charles Newirth
Writer	Richard Price

A story of racial and class division is set off by a carjacking turned kidnapping. A black detective, Lorenzo Council (Samuel Jackson), attempts to uncover the truth buried in victim Brenda Martins (Julianne Moore) story, who is white. Dazed and bleeding in an inner city ER, Brenda says that a black man assaulted her and stole her car with her 4 year old sleeping in the back seat. Set in fictional New Jersey towns, the racial and class elements between two towns, one low income predominantly black and one upper class white, become intensified by the incident. Complicating matters, Brenda’s brother is a detective in the upper-class area and interferes with Councils investigation. The racial and class tensions are front and center in this film and provide the backdrop for the unlikely friendship that develops between Council and Martin.