Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Sidney Poitier | ... | Manny Durrell | |
Bill Cosby | ... | Dave Anderson | |
James Earl Jones | ... | Joshua Burke | |
Denise Nicholas | ... | Lila French | |
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Hope Clarke | ... | Sarah Thomas |
Tracy Reed | ... | Nikki McLean | |
Titos Vandis | ... | Bruno | |
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Frances Foster | ... | Bea Quitman |
Jason Evers | ... | Ty Shorter | |
Marc Lawrence | ... | Louie | |
Ja'net DuBois | ... | Nellie Bond (as Ja'net Du Bois) | |
Sheryl Lee Ralph | ... | Barbara Hanley | |
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Edward Love | ... | Willie Mangum |
Ernest Thomas | ... | John | |
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Bryan O'Dell | ... | Roscoe |
Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them behind bars. Instead, he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks are reluctant and unwilling (and so are the kids). As time goes by they gain the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All goes well until someone out of the past tells them they have to do one last heist...or else. Written by Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
Cosby and Portier team up for a third time. This time they are successful criminals that have done very well for themselves... but it didn't go unnoticed. In fact, they are blackmailed into helping underserved youth as a means of atonement.
Just like Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do it Again, this was also cleverly written. In fact this movie was probably better than the prior movies in that there was an element of positivity in it. The challenge of helping the group of young African-Americans looking for employment was a nice positive feature. They took the challenge-with little choice in the matter-and were very creative in motivating the youth towards something different and better than what they were upon. This movie was as inspiring as it was fun.