Private detective Easy Rawlins has been caught on the wrong side of the most dangerous secret in town.
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
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Nostalgic, classical in form, earnest and grave.
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Cast
- Denzel WashingtonEasy Rawlins
- Tom SizemoreDeWitt Albright
- Jennifer BealsDaphne Monet
- Don CheadleMouse Alexander
- Maury ChaykinMatthew Terell
- Terry KinneyTodd Carter
- Mel WinklerJoppy
- Albert HallDegan Odell
- Lisa Nicole CarsonCoretta James
- Jernard BurksDupree Brouchard
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- Carl FranklinDirector
- Carl FranklinScreenplay
- Walter MosleyNovel
- Tak FujimotoDirector of Photography
- Elmer BernsteinOriginal Music Composer
- Carole Kravetz AykanianEditor
- Gary GoetzmanProducer
- Jesse BeatonProducer
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