The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.
Laurence Fishburne
Tierre Turner
Jamaal Wilkes
Moses Gunn
Rosalind Cash
Bernie Casey
Antonio Fargas
Stack Pierce
Erik Kilpatrick
Madge Sinclair
Stefan Gierasch
Charles Lampkin
Vince Martorano
Logan Ramsey
Thalmus Rasulala
Bill Henderson
Randy Martin
Hal Baylor
J. Jay Saunders