City on a Hill(2019)
Overview
In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.
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Top 6 Billed Cast
Jackie Rohr
Decourcy Ward
Jenny Rohr
Siobhan Quays
Chris Caysen
Julietta Caysen
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