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''Show Me a Hero'' is an American miniseries based on the 1999 nonfiction book of the same name by former ''New York Times'' writer, Lisa Belkin. The book details a white middle-class neighborhood's resistance to a federally mandated scattered-site public housing development in Yonkers, New York, and how these tensions affected the city as a whole. The miniseries was written by David Simon and journalist William F. Zorzi – whom Simon worked with at ''The Baltimore Sun'' and on ''The Wire''. It was directed by Paul Haggis.〔 Six episodes were ordered by HBO〔 and premiered on August 16, 2015. == Cast == * Oscar Isaac as Nick Wasicsko, former police officer, then Yonkers City Council member running for election to be mayor of Yonkers, eventually the youngest big-city mayor (1987–89) in the nation * Carla Quevedo as Nay Noe Wasicsko, City Hall staffer, Mayor Wasicsko's wife〔 * Peter Riegert as architect and city planner Oscar Newman, originator of the defensible space theory * Jim Belushi as Angelo R. Martinelli, a six-term Mayor of Yonkers who is Wasicsko's opponent in the election to be mayor of Yonkers〔 * Alfred Molina as Henry J. "Hank" Spallone, Yonkers City Council member who was passionately anti-housing who becomes mayor of Yonkers based on his refusal to follow the desegregation order〔〔 * Winona Ryder as Vinni Restiano, Yonkers City Council president who advocated for integration〔〔〔 * Bob Balaban as Judge Leonard B. Sand, who ordered desegregation * Jim Bracchitta as Nicholas Longo, Yonkers City Council member who was outspoken in his criticism of the federal ruling * Allan Steele as Edward Fagan, Yonkers City Council member who was outspoken in his criticism of the federal ruling * Terry Kinney as Peter Smith, the Yonkers Housing Authority director〔 * Jon Bernthal as Michael H. Sussman, civil rights attorney and former federal prosecutor; represents the local NAACP chapter〔〔 * Michael Stahl-David as James Surdoval, Wasicsko's political consultant〔 * Catherine Keener as Mary Dorman, an East Yonkers homeowner who was part of the Save Yonkers Federation〔 * Bruce Altman as Buddy Dorman, Mary's husband * Ilfenesh Hadera as Carmen "Alma" Febles, a single mother from the Dominican Republic * LaTanya Richardson Jackson as Norma O’Neal, a home health aid who lives in the projects, and is struggling with losing her sight * Natalie Paul as Doreen Henderson, a young woman born in public housing but raised in the suburbs, who is drawn back to the housing projects where her life spirals out of control just as the crack epidemic intensifies〔 * Dominique Fishback as Billie Rowan, a troubled teenager who lives in the projects and gets involved with a local petty criminal〔〔 * Melanie Nicholls-King as Janet Rowan, Billie Rowan's mother〔 * Clarke Peters as Robert Mayhawk, neighborhood consultant who runs the Housing Education Relocation Enterprise (H.E.R.E.), to assist with the integration of scattered-site public housing〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Show Me a Hero」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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