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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Profanity Movie Release: 1998 DVD Release: 01/08/2002 Format: DVD - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 48 mins Studio: HBO Home Video Total Copies: 2 Genres: Drama, Urban Drama

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 has a Sunset Boulevard twist. The TV movie premiered March 21, 1998 on HBO. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

Laurence Fishburne - Socrates Fortlow
Bill Cobbs - Right Burke
Natalie Cole - Iula Brown
Bill Duke - Blackbird Wills
Laurie Metcalf - Halley Grimes

Michael Apted directs Laurence Fishburne in Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, which comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that preserves the original broadcast aspect ratio of 1.33:1. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround, a French soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Stereo, and a Spanish soundtrack has been provided in Dolby Digital Mono. Subtitles are accessible in all three of those languages as well. Supplemental materials include biographies of the cast and crew. This is a fine disc from HBO/Rysher. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide