''Doing Hard Time'' is a 2004

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

crime film starring

Boris Kodjoe Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe (; born March 8, 1973) is a German actor, producer, and former model best known for his roles as Kelby in the 2002 film ''Brown Sugar'', the sports-courier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama se ...

Michael K. Williams Michael Kenneth Williams (November 22, 1966 – September 6, 2021) was an American actor. He rose to fame in 2002 through his critically acclaimed role as Omar Little on the HBO drama series ''The Wire''. He has been described as a "singular pr ...

, Steven Bauer, David Banks, and

Giancarlo Esposito Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (; born April 26, 1958) is an American actor and director. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series '' Breaking Bad'', from 2009 to 2011, and in its prequel series ''Better ...

. Michael (Boris Kodjoe) was a good man and a loving father, until one day, his seven-year-old son was caught in the crossfire of a drug deal gone bad. Michael's mourning becomes outrage when his child's killers get only a slap on the wrist for drug possession. He launches a crusade of vengeance, getting arrested himself so that he can go behind bars and deal out his own brand of justice to the two shooters. But in a place where there are no rules, revenge will no longer be Michael's only concern.

Plot

When Michael Mitchell's (Boris Kodjoe) seven-year-old son, Chase, is accidentally shot during an aborted drug deal, no one knows for sure which of the two gunmen, Curtis "Durty Curt From Detroit" Craig (

) or Raymond "Razor" Carver (Michael Kimbrew), pulled the trigger. Because both men refuse to testify against the other, a jury finds them guilty only of drug possession, meaning they could be back on the street in two years. Having already lost Chase's mother to cancer, Michael can't live with the idea of his only child's murder going unpunished. As part of a methodical plan to exact his revenge, he commits a brutal crime to get himself sentenced to the same institution as Durty Curt and Razor. Meanwhile, Durty Curt is determined to settle the score with Razor, who has fallen in with prison kingpin Eddie Mathematic ( Sticky Fingaz). As a showdown approaches, a cast of players, from prison guard Capt. Pierce (

) to gay bookie Clever (

William L. Johnson William L. Johnson is an American actor and musician who has held starring and prominent roles in many theatrically released projects, including '' Blue Hill Avenue'', ''Motives 1'', ''Motives 2'', ''Mannsfield 12'', ''Crossover'', ''Doing Hard T ...

) to fast-talking druggy (David Banks) to Michael's illiterate cellmate, Smalls (

Marcello Thedford Marcello Thedford is an American film actor, television actor and power lifter known for his roles as Kelvin "Buffalo" James on the ESPN dramatic series ''Playmakers'', Semi in '' Employee of the Month'', and in eight episodes of '' ER'' as Leon, ...

), take sides and place bets on the outcome.

Cast

as Michael Mitchell *

as Curtis "Durty Curt From Detroit" Craig * Sticky Fingaz as Eddie Mathematic * David Banks as Chris * Reagan Gomez-Preston as Rayvon Jones *

as Clever *

as Toure Smalls *

Emilio Rivera Emilio Rivera (born February 24, 1961) is an American film and television actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for his portrayal of Marcus Álvarez in ''Sons of Anarchy'' and its spin-off, '' Mayans M.C.'' He is also known for his dep ...

as Officer David Teal * Chenoa Maxwell as Elise * Charles Malik Whitfield as Armand * Patrice Fisher as Lt. Elaine Lodge * Steven Bauer as Det. Anthony Wade *

as Captain Pierce * Michael Kimbrew as Raymond "Razor" Carver * Thomas Louis Wood as Detective #1

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