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An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, …
James Earl Jones,
Cicely Tyson,
Louis Gossett Jr.,
Glynn Turman,
Jonelle Allen,
Roger E. Mosley,
Ralph Wilcox
Added on Paramount 2022-05-13.