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Black Dog (1998)

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Release Date: May 1, 1998
Genre: Crime, Action
Running Time: 103 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for intense scenes of action violence, and for language.
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: Scott Sturgeon, Dan Vining, William Mickelberry
Cast: Rusty De Wees, Charles Dutton, Hester Hargett, Stuart Greer, Whitt Brantley, Erin Broderick, Cyril O'Reilly, Randy Travis, Meat Loaf, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Vincent, Brenda Strong, Graham Beckel, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lorraine Toussaint, Patrick Swayze

Jack Crews is freshly out of prison and wanting to start a new life with his wife and daughter. A former trucker, he longs for his old job and the money, but his license was revoked as a part of the sentence. However, when his mechanics boss offers him the job to run a route, he can't pass up the ten thousand dollars. He climbs behind the eighteen wheeler for the first time in three Read more

Movie Review

Grade: C Enter Black Dog, a nonstop action movie featuring lots of truck - yes, truck - chases. The film is packed with trucks either exploding, flipping, or falling off cliffs. That says about it for the plot. The question is why didn't Red (Meat Loaf) take the cargo when it was sitting in his own yard at the beginning? Read the full movie review

User Comments & Reviews

Black Dog, by Kevin Hooks

December 11, 2003

there's a cheese fight but I would watch the movie. "the only way to stay alive is to keep on moving." it has patrick swayze,randy travis, and meat loaf. I'd recamend people who like flips, explosions,rubble,and exciting action to watch it

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