The tougher the fight, the sweeter the victory.
Jon Bon Jovi plays Jamey Meadows, a man newly released from prison who has found himself homeless on the crazy streets of New York City. Slowly, he must try to build his life up from the gutter. Resisting constant offers from his brother, played by William Forsythe (Dick Tracy, The Rock, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo) to rejoin the insidious world of crime, Meadows takes a menial job as a door to door census worker. Among his many encounters throughout this job, he meets a young Chinese immigrant who is just as unhappy in her life as he is in his. These two slowly hit it off and a relationship gradually begins to develop between them. Can Jamey Meadows learn to live in this new life, or will the temptations of his old ways drag him back to where he started?
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Jon Bon Jovi
Jamey Meadows
Jill Hennessy
Patti
William Forsythe
Gil Meadows
Bai Ling
Chun Hua
Peter Kwong
Tony Lo Fat
John Ventimiglia
Anton
Joseph Michael Marmo
Joey / Gangster
Thomas Lennon
Census Taker
Bridget Moynahan
Apartment Owner
Diane Chang
Han Feng
Quentin Heggs
Jiggy
Anika Jennie Ji
José Ramón Rosario
Homeless Shelter Resident
Alysia Reiner
(scenes deleted)
Joey Vega
