In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.

• United Artists
• Frank Mancuso Jr. Productions
• Laurence Fishburne
• Tim Roth
• Vanessa Williams
• Andy Garcia
• Cicely Tyson
• Chi McBride
• Clarence Williams III
• Richard Bradford