Big Deal (1986)

Directed by Bob Fosse
Cast: Cleavant Derricks, Loretta Devine, Alan Weeks, Ciscoe Bruton II, Gary Chapman, Wayne Cilento, Desiree Coleman, Lloyd Culbreath

In Chicago in the 1930s a group of small-time unemployed African-American men plan to rob a pawn shop. Their leader, Charlie, is a former boxer. But the hapless would-be thieves run into many obstacles along the way.