Kings

Kings

Don't let your family get caught in the crossfire

201792 min5.6 / 10

An intimate family drama set in the tense days before the 1992 LA riots, balancing domestic warmth against the encroaching threat of systemic violence.

A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

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