Charles Burnett, one of America's most highly regarded independent filmmakers, wrote and directed this domestic drama about a black middle-class family living in South central Los Angeles. However, there are no gangs, no guns, no drugs but instead a
Pierce Mundy works at his parents' South Central dry cleaners with no prospects for the future and his childhood buddies are in prison or dead. With his best friend just getting out of jail and his brother busy planning a wedding to a snooty upper-mi
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first
这部影片拍摄于1977年。 洛杉矶南部的贫民窟,斯坦一家就生活在那里。斯坦在屠宰场里工作,虽然他没日没夜地拼命乾活,但菲薄的薪水仍然不足以改善他们贫困的生活。由于整日忙于工作,同妻子和淘气的儿子没有什么交流,斯坦慢慢地同他们疏远了。他的两个熟人整日游手好闲,乾着杀人越货的勾当,他们想拉斯坦入伙,迫于生计,他同意了。事成之后,斯坦用分得的钱合伙同朋友尤金买了辆旧车,上下班的时候以车代步。粗心的尤金弄坏了汽车的发动机,斯坦将车修好,想用这辆车参加比赛,赢得奖金。不幸的是,在参加比赛的路上汽车又爆胎了