Cast
Terrence Howard (Byron)Nicole Ari Parker (Nina)Brendan Sexton III (Mooney)Sandra Ellis Lafferty (Deb)Timothy McNeil (Stuart)Tom Gilroy (Jack)George Gerdes (Earl)Dewey Weber (Toby)William Prael (Deputy)William Bell (Otis)
Director
Garret Williams
Synopsis
Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard and Nicole Ari Parker star as a young African American couple who must find a way to survive when their car breaks down in a backwater, violent racist town.Byron (Howard--Hustle & Flow) and Nina (Parker--King's Ransom) are driving from Chicago to Los Angeles, where Nina plans to start college, when they are forced to stop in a small, desert place just this side of a ghost town. Unaccustomed to confronting racism and bigotry on the scale preserved in this rural anachronism, Byron's confrontational response to slurs, epithets and threats quickly leads to a fight for survival -- and the Chicago couple is alone and outnumbered.
