White Man's Burden
Reality Just Switched Sides
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Rysher Entertainment, HBO, A Band Apart, Savoy Pictures
- Keyword: dystopia, black white relations, angry, alternate universe, introspective, arrogant
- Cast: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Margaret Avery, Tom Bower, Andrew Lawrence