When Major League black neighborhood finds out that there's going to be a freeway Construction in their neighborhood they gather together to try and stop it. That's the basic plot in a nutshell, and the plot line is as big as a nutshell. Mostly the film is about how Yaphet Kotto uses his influence to guide the young people of the neighborhood to follow in his footsteps, and those steps lead to con games. Not a real moral tale to be telling, but the narrative is very entertaining and often also really funny. I even laughed at some of the grifts going on has the victims prior to being conned all came off as rather pompous, acting uppity before even agreeing to give money for something that they weren't going to get.
Six years before she turned on the charm as the future Dr. Angie (Baxter) Hubbard on "All My Children", Debbie Morgan made a sparkling debut as the film's young romantic heroine, here the daughter of Rosalind Cash, Kotto's on-screen girlfriend. Morgan and Cash, with their smiles that wouldn't quit, are perfectly cast as relatives, and while the rest of the ensemble is young and energetic, many of the characters have personalities that seem exactly like. Even pre-teen kids (some younger than 10) seem to have a brain filled with the hustle know-how, and after. Still, in spite of dated lingo and attutudes, this is fascinating as a time capsule of a certain type of slice-of-life, and the Chicago locations under the elevated train in particular is fabulous.
Six years before she turned on the charm as the future Dr. Angie (Baxter) Hubbard on "All My Children", Debbie Morgan made a sparkling debut as the film's young romantic heroine, here the daughter of Rosalind Cash, Kotto's on-screen girlfriend. Morgan and Cash, with their smiles that wouldn't quit, are perfectly cast as relatives, and while the rest of the ensemble is young and energetic, many of the characters have personalities that seem exactly like. Even pre-teen kids (some younger than 10) seem to have a brain filled with the hustle know-how, and after. Still, in spite of dated lingo and attutudes, this is fascinating as a time capsule of a certain type of slice-of-life, and the Chicago locations under the elevated train in particular is fabulous.