Always Outnumbered

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.
Plot.
The film stars Laurence Fishburne as aging ex-con Socrates Fortlow, who after a long incarceration, is trying hard to make a new life and to accept the regrets of his past. Meanwhile, he meets a young boy named Darryl, who witnessed a boy murdered by a friend of his. He also has to deal with his best friend's deteriorating health and finding work.