A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.
Cast
Forest Whitaker
Jackson
Gregory Hines
Goldy
Robin Givens
Imabelle
Danny Glover
Easy Money
Samm-Art Williams
Gus Parsons
Zakes Mokae
Big Kathy
T.K. Carter
Smitty
Stack Pierce
Coffin Ed
Anthonia Kitchen
Mourner
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Self
Reynaldo Rey
Blind Man
Willard E. Pugh
Claude X
Tyler Collins
Teena
Badja Djola
Slim
John Toles-Bey
Jodie
Wendell Pierce
Louis
George Wallace
Grave Digger
Leonard Jackson
Mr. Clay
Crew
Bill Duke
Director
John Toles-Bey
Writer
Bobby Crawford
Writer
Chester Himes
Novel
Curtiss Clayton
Editor
Toyomichi Kurita
Director of Photography
Bob Weinstein
Executive Producer
Terry Glinwood
Executive Producer
Nik Powell
Executive Producer
Harvey Weinstein
Executive Producer
William Horberg
Executive Producer
Stephen Woolley
Producer
Kerry Rock
Producer
Ron Stacker Thompson
Associate Producer
John Nicolella
Co-Producer
Forest Whitaker
Co-Producer
Steven Legler
Production Design
Aleta Chappelle
Casting
Elmer Bernstein
Original Music Composer
K.C. Fox
Set Decoration
Henry Kingi Jr.
Stunts
Henry Kingi
Stunts
Tony Brubaker
Stunts
Nina Ruscio
Art Direction
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