In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

• DirectorCarl Franklin
• Release29 September 1995
• Genre
  Thriller / Crime
• Duration1h 42m
• Budget$27,000,000
• Revenue$16,140,822
• Rate
  

  6.464
  433 reviews
• Productions

  Mundy Lane Entertainment, TriStar Pictures, Clinica Estetico