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Always Outnumbered

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Always Outnumbered
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2hrs 0min
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1998
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HBO Home Video
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Socrates Fortlow
Right Burke
Iula Brown
Blackbird Wills
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