The Confidant (2010)

Director
Alton Glass

Main cast
Boris Kodjoe; David Banner; Kenya Moore; Richard Roundtree; Bai Ling

Genres
Comedy, Thriller

Description
The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures, a first round NFL draft pick, and a talented art major on a full scholarship. A complicated web of lies, gambling, murder and a pact between friends sends an innocent friend to prison and the other to fame. After spending eleven years in prison, the innocent comes to collect a debt and is determined to have the life he was promised... by any means necessary.


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