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.

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
Cynthia Baker
Sister Kevin Anne
Marty Higginbotham
Mr. Davis
Ed Grennan
Mayor Richard Daley