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| Director: | Bill Duke | 
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| Writer: | Chester Himes, Bobby Crawford, John Toles-Bey | 
| Staring: | 
| A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale. | |
| Release Date: | May 03, 1991 | 
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| Director: | Bill Duke | 
| Writer: | Chester Himes, Bobby Crawford, John Toles-Bey | 
| Genres: | Comedy, Crime | 
| Keywords | gold, gangster, shootout, harlem, new york city, moll, african american comedy, african american romance | 
| Production Companies | Miramax, Palace Pictures | 
| Box Office | Revenue: $10,400,000 Budget: $8,000,000 | 
| Updates | Updated: Feb 02, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 | 
| Name | Character | 
|---|---|
| Forest Whitaker | Jackson | 
| Gregory Hines | Goldy | 
| Robin Givens | Imabelle | 
| Danny Glover | Easy Money | 
| Samm-Art Williams | Gus Parsons | 
| Zakes Mokae | Big Kathy | 
| T.K. Carter | Smitty | 
| Stack Pierce | Coffin Ed | 
| Anthonia Kitchen | Mourner | 
| Screamin' Jay Hawkins | Self | 
| Reynaldo Rey | Blind Man | 
| Willard E. Pugh | Claude X | 
| Tyler Collins | Teena | 
| Badja Djola | Slim | 
| John Toles-Bey | Jodie | 
| Wendell Pierce | Louis | 
| George Wallace | Grave Digger | 
| Leonard Jackson | Mr. Clay | 
| Name | Job | 
|---|---|
| Chester Himes | Novel | 
| Bobby Crawford | Writer | 
| Curtiss Clayton | Editor | 
| Steven Legler | Production Design | 
| Aleta Chappelle | Casting | 
| Nina Ruscio | Art Direction | 
| K.C. Fox | Set Decoration | 
| Bill Duke | Director | 
| John Toles-Bey | Writer | 
| Toyomichi Kurita | Director of Photography | 
| Elmer Bernstein | Original Music Composer | 
| Henry Kingi | Stunts | 
| Tony Brubaker | Stunts | 
| Henry Kingi Jr. | Stunts | 
| Name | Title | 
|---|---|
| Kerry Rock | Producer | 
| Terry Glinwood | Executive Producer | 
| John Nicolella | Co-Producer | 
| Nik Powell | Executive Producer | 
| Ron Stacker Thompson | Associate Producer | 
| Stephen Woolley | Producer | 
| William Horberg | Executive Producer | 
| Bob Weinstein | Executive Producer | 
| Harvey Weinstein | Executive Producer | 
| Forest Whitaker | Co-Producer | 
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