Ford Cole (Ray Liotta) is a big-city district attorney with his eye on the mayor's office and a big problem on his hands. One of his deputies, the beautiful assistant district attorney Nora Timmer (Jolene Blalock), has just confessed to killing a man in what she claims was self-defense.

A bad situation gets worse when an enigmatic stranger named Luther Pinks (LL Cool J) turns up at the police station to contradict Nora's story and paint a very different picture of Ford's talented colleague. With his career and perhaps his life on the line, Ford has a mere handful of hours to sort the truth from the lies in a saga involving Nora, a record store clerk (Mekhi Phifer), and a powerful gang lord.

Directed by
Wayne Beach

Cast
Ray Liotta - Ford Cole
LL Cool J - Luther Pinks (as James Todd Smith)
Mekhi Phifer - Isaac Duperde
Jolene Blalock - Nora Timmer
Guy Torry - Chet Price
Taye Diggs - Jeffrey Sykes
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Ty Trippin
Bruce McGill - Godfrey

Production Co.
Longfellow Pictures
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Bonnie Timmermann Films
GreeneStreet Films

Produced by
John M. Penotti
Andrew Karsch
Andrew Reimer

Studio
Lionsgate

Writer
Wayne Beach

Music
Jeff Rona