Tom (Glover) is an upwardly-mobile black middle-class attorney determined to "end the colored man's losing streak." He gets a crack at a controversial case that may finally move him up and out of his basement office. When he successfully defends an admitted arsonist whose crime caused the painful death of two black teenagers, the family is off to the suburbs. It is 1973, and the lily-white community of Greenwich, Connecticut, doesn't quite deliver on the promise of the American Dream.

release year: 2003

star(s): Whoopi Goldberg