A good cast and a fine script is all a decent film needs, as this engrossing TV movie demonstrates. When a white woman is killed during a carjacking by four black youths, it sets off a racial and political bomb in New York. A seemingly straightforward case taken by District Attorney Jim Sullivan (F Murray Abraham) is turned into a race issue by black community leader Rev Ed Walton (Gregory Hines). But the match that lights the fuse is the husband of the dead woman (Bruce Davison) who sees justice being sidetracked for the sake of political expediency. Hines and Murray are excellent, as is Judd Hirsch as the defence attorney in the case. A well-made, absorbing drama.

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