Kevin Hooks

A Black aspiring basketball star and his Puerto Rican girlfriend struggle against the harsh realities of family prejudice and life in the ghetto.

Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield scored Oscar nominations for their portrayals of a sharecropping family with a son who are divided by a prison stint.

When a boy growing up in a low income area becomes a heroin addict, his mother and foster father do their best to help him change his life.