Once in the Life (2000) - The A.V. Club

Cast

Eamonn Walker (Tony)Laurence Fishburne (20)Gregory Hines (Ruffhouse)Michael Paul Chan (Buddha)Dominic Chianese Jr. (Freddie Nine Lives)Tiger Hu Chen (Chino)Paul Calderon (Manny Rivera)Andres Titus (Hector)Titus Welliver (Torch)Harsh Nayyar (Cab Driver)Sue Costello (Sgt. Kneeley)Nick Chinlund (Mike Murphy)Timothy W. White (Little Billy)Wanda De Jesus (Jackie)Justin Pierre Edmund (Little Mikey)Jim Breuer (Pizzaman)Annabella Sciorra (Maxine)Huey Morgan (Carlos)

Director

Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis

Street hustler Mike cooks up a drug rip-off with his estranged half-brother Torch. Simple robbery turns fatal bloodbath, so they hide out in a claustrophobic rat hole waiting for Mike's buddy Tony, who's "out of the life," or so he says.