LOUIS GOSSETT JR. MAKES MOST OF 'LEAST': Actor stars in indie feature set against 1965 Watts riots.
(December 10, 2007)
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*Academy Award winner Louis Gossett Jr. will star opposite Lauren Holly in the independent film "The Least Among You," according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The story centers on a black man named Richard Kelly (newcomer Cedric Sanders) who after graduating from college and becoming successful in the corporate world, is falsely arrested in the 1965 Watts riots.

Kelly faces racial prejudice from professors and students after his agreement to a plea bargain that involves spending two semesters at a seminary.

Gossett will play an elderly ex-con who lives in the basement of Kelly's dorm and inspires him to conquer his demons. Holly will play a professor at the seminary who has become a closet drinker after losing her husband and two children while doing missionary work in Africa.

Shooting on "The Least Among You" began Tuesday in Los Angeles.