Black Dog
by Kevin Hooks
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Actor: Brian Kelly, Gabriel Casseus, Meat Loaf, Patrick Swayze, Randy TravisDirector: Kevin Hooks
Brand: Universal Studios
Producer: Gary Levinsohn
Producer: Hester Hargett
Producer: Jim Wedaa
Producer: Kim Kurumada
Producer: Mace Neufeld
Writer: Dan Vining
Writer: William Mickelberry
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-10-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Black Dog
Movie Review: Black Dog
Summary: 5 Stars
What words describe truck drivers? Lonely, overweight, loaded up on reds? When Patrick Swayze's behind the wheel, only one word comes to mind...hero.
In this masterpiece, Jack Crews (Swayze) must drive a truck to save his family from bankruptcy. But first he must overcome his troubled past. On his last haul, years prior, he ran over an elderly couple shopping at a roadside fruit stand.
Crews was sent to prison where he vowed to never drive a truck (or anything larger than a lawnmower) ever again.
Regardless, Crews needs the cash, so he agrees to drive a truck full of guns from Atlanta to New York.
The offer comes from the movie's villain, Meatloaf. Mr. Loaf gives a superb performance. The very gravy of his character has lumps...lumps of hideous greed.
The true crime is how many people have not seen this movie. Swayze proves heroes can exist beyond "Road House."
The journey into evil reminds me of "Apocalypse Now", while the cars and trucks remind me of "Smoky and the Bandit."
This movie has joy, sorrow and anger at every turn of the odometer, and is sure to be a classic. So brilliant is this film that, despite its complexity, you'll ask only one question at the end. Where is the Black Dog, and is my turn to walk it?
Summary of Black Dog
BLACK DOG - DVD MovieAn ex-con daredevil trucker must reinfect himself with white-line fever in order to save his wife and kid from nasty gunrunners in this enjoyably mindless, twisted-metal-fest from the director of Passenger 57. Longtime MIA action stud Patrick Swayze (who snagged the part after Kevin Sorbo had to suddenly vacate due to health problems) is even more expressionless than usual in the lead role, but helmer Kevin Hooks compensates with a seriously rocking country soundtrack, some pleasantly eccentric supporting characters (including erstwhile crooner Randy Travis and a way-over-the-top Meatloaf as a psychotic trucker preaching damnation by the dashboard light), and--most importantly--a whole lot of rolling iron getting smashed in spectacularly kinetic fashion. A low-down, down-home, cotton-picking flick that blows up real good. --Andrew Wright
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