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 ...more
- Laurence Fishburne - Socrates Fortlow
- Bill Cobbs - Right Burke
- Natalie Cole - Iula Brown
- Bill Duke - Blackbird Wills
- Laurie Metcalf - Halley Grimes
- John Toles-Bey - Stoney Wiley
- 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
- Michael Apted - Director
- Walter Mosley - Executive Producer
- Laurence Fishburne - Executive Producer
- Anne-Marie Mackay - Producer
- Jonathon Ker - Producer
- Walter Mosley - Screenwriter
- John Brace - Casting
- Linda Lowy - Casting
- Jeffrey Downer - Co-producer
- Rick Shaine - Editor
- Michael Franti - Composer (Music Score)
- Keith Brian Burns - Production Designer
- John Bailey - Cinematographer
- Rob Janiger - Sound/Sound Designer












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