The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble despite the surroundings of poverty, drugs, crime and violence of their ghetto neighborhood.
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Cast
Alfre Woodard
Mary Thomas
AJ Johnson
Ruby Thomas
Leon
Michael Thomas
Garland Spencer
Isaiah Thomas at Age 11
Chick Vennera
Coach Pingatore
Larry O. Williams Jr.
Isaiah at Age 15
Jamey Sheridan
Brother Ted
Harry Lennix
Nero
Wanda Christine
Sara
Shamon Ricks
Jojo
Lanei Chapman
Mary at Age 16
Barbara E. Robertson
Miss Day
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