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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned is a 1997 crime novel by Walter Mosley. [1] Plot Summary. Ex- convict Socrates Fortlow lives in Watts, a tough Los Angeles neighborhood, and struggles to stay on the path of righteousness. He befriends a young boy named Darryl, who initially dislikes Socrates but grows to appreciate his mentorship.
- Walter Mosley
- 1997
Always Outnumbered (also known as Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned) is a television film based on the novel Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by author Walter Mosley. It first aired on pay television channel HBO in 1998.
Nov 1, 1997 · Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room Watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot plate, scavenges for bottles, drinks and wrestles with his demons.
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Mar 21, 1998 · Always Outnumbered: Directed by Michael Apted. With Laurence Fishburne, Daniel Williams, Bill Cobbs, Natalie Cole. A former prisoner tries to save a neighbor youth from following him down the wrong path.
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- Drama
- Michael Apted
- 1998-03-21
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. By WALTER MOSLEY W.W. Norton & Company. Read the Review. CRIMSON SHADOW. "What you doin' there, boy?" It was six a.m. Socrates Fortlow had...
A study guide for Walter Mosley's novel about Socrates, an aging rapist and murderer in Watts, who helps young people in trouble. Learn about the themes, characters, literary techniques, and questions and answers of this episodic and philosophical work.
Oct 1, 1998 · Once you go to prison you belong there." Socrates Fortlow has done his time: twenty-seven years for murder and rape, acts forged by his own two rock-breaking hands. Now, he has come home to a new kind of prison: two battered rooms in an abandoned building in Watts.
- Walter Mosley
