Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to move his wife and their two kids out of their mixed lower-middle-class town and into the posh enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Acting
Glover and Goldberg's crackling, lived-in marriage.
Direction
Dickerson nails 70s aesthetic without nostalgia traps.
Writing
Sharp dialogue on code-switching and complicity.
Director
Ernest R. Dickerson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mo'Nique filmed this right before her Oscar-winning Precious role, playing a completely different energy.
The film quietly mirrors real 1970s Black upper-class migration patterns to suburbs like Greenwich, where homeowners associations famously used 'respectable' legal tactics to block sales.
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