Black Dog 1998   PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Kevin Hooks
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis, Meat Loaf, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Vincent, Brenda Strong, Graham Beckel, Stephen Tobolowsky, Charles S. Dutton
This average trucker action flick has ex-con Jack Crews (Patrick Swayze) on the road with an 18-wheeler unknowingly carrying a load of AK-47 assault rifles. There's lots of road action as he finds out what he's carrying and this wife and daughter are targeted as hostages to ensure Jack delivers the goods. 4 User Reviews
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| | The movie was awlsome | babydoll 09/18/2009 | | The movie moved me with the compassion for his family..The action he did was real. I give it a 100% for rating.. The action, drama and love. He is a very good actor, takes pride in his work, and co-workers. |
| | Get the movie, watch the action and the good guy wins | Enjoyable, Action loaded 09/18/2009 | | This is one of his movies you wouldn't want to miss. You like action, watch it, Want a good guy that wins, watch it. Exciting, that will keep you in your seat. |
| | Very enjoyable | old timer 01/28/2007 | | Action loaded, the good guy wins. |
| | it was an amazing action movie that no one should miss! | julianna 01/19/2007 | | |
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 Fled 1996 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Kevin Hooks
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Will Patton, Robert John Burke, Robert Hooks, Victor Rivers, David Dukes, Ken Jenkins, Salma Hayek
Two chained-together convicts, Piper (Laurence Fishburne) and Dodge (Stephen Baldwin), escape and set off to get their hands on the money they left behind before serving time. Both the Cuban-American Mafia and the police are in fast pursuit along the trail of Piper and Dodge.
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Heat Wave 1990  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kevin Hooks
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, David Strathairn, Robert Hooks, Adam Arkin, Margaret Avery, Charlie Korsmo
Good acting and story make this made-for-TV film, based on the 1965 Watts riots, worth watching
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich 1978 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Nelson
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Larry B. Scott, Helen Martin, Glynn Turman, David Groh, Kevin Hooks, Harold Sylvester, Bill Cobbs, Kenneth Green, Erin Blunt, Claire Brenner, Arthur French, Sheila Wills, Arnold Johnson
The focus of this film is Benjie (Larry B. Scott), a 16-year-old boy who becomes addicted to drugs. After Benjie's ghetto parents, Butler and Sweets (Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson), and his grandmother (Helen Martin) become alienated from him, Benjie relies on a social worker (Claire Brenner) for help in dealing with his addiction.
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Mutiny 1999 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kevin Hooks
Cast: Michael Jai White, David Ramsey, Duane Martin, Adrian Pasdar, Matthew Glave, Joe Morton, James Sikking, David Barry Gray, Troy Winbush, Lark Voorhies
"Mutiny" is an important story, based on fact, about U.S Navy sailors in World War II–African Americans. Their orders were to load ammunition aboard ship. Unfortunately, safety precautions were not in place, and about 300 died.
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 Passenger 57 1992 R, 83 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Kevin Hooks
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore, Alex Datcher, Bruce Greenwood, Robert Hooks, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael Horse, Ernie Lively, Marc Macaulay, Duchess Tomasello, Joel Fogel, William Edward Roberts, James Short, Jane McPherson
FBI agents are escorting a dangerous criminal (Bruce Payne) when he and his cohorts skyjack the plane on which they are riding and kill the agents. John Cutter (Wesley Snipes), an airline security agent, is aboard and must defuse the terrorist situation.
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Sounder 1972  G, 105 min.
Genre: Family / Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Taj Mahal, Carmen Mathews, James Best, Janet MacLachlan, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Eric Hooks, Yvonne Jarrell, Teddy Airhart, Richard Durham, Myrl Sharkey, Inez Dunham, William T. Bennett
Set during 1933 in Louisiana, this is an uplifting story about a Black sharecropper, Nathan Morgan (Paul Winfield), who is sent to jail on a false charge. His wife, Rebecca (Cicely Tyson), manages to keep the family together until Nathan's return. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture, Actor (Winfield) and Actress (Tyson).
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Sounder 2003 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Kevin Hooks
Cast: Carl Lumbly, Suzzanne Douglass, Daniel Lee Robertson III, Peter MacNeill, Bill Lake, Paul Winfield, Marcus Johnson, Ashley Archer, Joshua Watkis, Eugene Clark
This made-for-TV Disney presentation is a remake of the excellent 1972 film based on William H. Armstrong's novel. It is the story of David (known as "Boy") (Daniel Lee Robertson, III), a black youngster who is the son of a sharecropper. When his father is jailed for stealing food to feed his family, Boy sets off with his dog Sounder to find his father, meeting challenges and successes along the way. Director Kevin Hooks played Boy in the original film.
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| 1. Black Dog (1998)
2. Fled (1996)
3. The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened (1977)
4. Heat Wave (1990)
5. A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1978)
6. Mutiny (1999)
7. Passenger 57 (1992)
8. Sounder (1972)
9. Sounder (2003)
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