***SPOILERS*** Waiting for a green light in this high crime neighborhood Matt McGreevey's, Vince Ventresca, car looks as if its about to be carjacked when a desperate looking black man bangs on its windows trying to get in. Claiming that he's being chased by a group of what turned out to be white racist out to do him in Matt just rolls down the windows and steps on the gas leaving the poor man to his fate: Beaten to death with chains and tire irons on the street.
It's later the next day that Matt sees in the paper that the person he left behind, in thinking he was up to no good, was a highly respected black professor John Woodrell, Hill Harper, who authored a number of books on race relations. Before he knows it Matt's skin start to take on a dark shade of color as well as his features that morphs him into the man that he left behind in die in the street John Woodrell!
***SPOILERS*** Matt coming home from work has his shocked wife Hilary-Barbara Tyson-in thinking he's a home invader throw him out of the house and calls the police leaving him with no place to stay. He's now determined to find Wopodrell's family and tell them what happened to him and how sorry he is in letting him get murdered when he had a chance to save his life. At first shocked to see him, in that she attended his funeral just the day before, Woodrell's wife Clare, Mari Morrow, thinks that the now homeless and friendless Matt is some kind of a nut trying to capitalize of her husbands death, in finding a place to stay, and slams the door in his face. It's then driving into the night that Matt gets a second chance and this time he doesn't blow it like he did before. But it took him being in the dead man John Woodhall's shoes or skin and seeing what he went through that turned him, and the car he was driving, around.
It's later the next day that Matt sees in the paper that the person he left behind, in thinking he was up to no good, was a highly respected black professor John Woodrell, Hill Harper, who authored a number of books on race relations. Before he knows it Matt's skin start to take on a dark shade of color as well as his features that morphs him into the man that he left behind in die in the street John Woodrell!
***SPOILERS*** Matt coming home from work has his shocked wife Hilary-Barbara Tyson-in thinking he's a home invader throw him out of the house and calls the police leaving him with no place to stay. He's now determined to find Wopodrell's family and tell them what happened to him and how sorry he is in letting him get murdered when he had a chance to save his life. At first shocked to see him, in that she attended his funeral just the day before, Woodrell's wife Clare, Mari Morrow, thinks that the now homeless and friendless Matt is some kind of a nut trying to capitalize of her husbands death, in finding a place to stay, and slams the door in his face. It's then driving into the night that Matt gets a second chance and this time he doesn't blow it like he did before. But it took him being in the dead man John Woodhall's shoes or skin and seeing what he went through that turned him, and the car he was driving, around.