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Genre
  
Action, Crime, Drama

Initial DVD release
  
September 22, 2009

Country
  
United States

5.2/10
IMDb

Director
  
Music director
  
Duration
  

Language
  
English

Black Dog (film) movie poster
Release date
  
May 1, 1998 (1998-05-01)

Writer
  
William Mickelberry, Dan Vining

Cast
  
(Jack Crews), (Red), (Earl), (Sonny), (Cutler), (Melanie)

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An ex-con takes a job truck driving across the country. However, the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to save his family. The stakes are high as gun runners, government agents and a fleet of monstrous 18-wheelers pursue him in an intense highway duel.

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Black Dog is a 1998 action film directed by Kevin Hooks and starring Patrick Swayze. The film tells the story of a trucker and ex-con who is manipulated into transporting illegal arms. The film co-stars musicians Randy Travis and Meat Loaf.

Black Dog (film) movie scenes

An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.

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Plot

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The movie first starts out with FBI and ATF agents on a pursuit to stop a truck carrying illegal guns as part of an illegal arms operation. The result is the death of the driver, which leads to a disagreement with FBI and ATF agents on involvement with the case.

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Jack Crews (Patrick Swayze) is a truck driver who has just been released from jail for vehicular manslaughter, for accidentally hitting and killing a motorist and his passenger on the side of the road during a trip in which he experienced a Black Dog hallucination. Along with his imprisonment, he also lost his Commercial drivers license. Following his release, he attempts to get back to a normal life, but this time holds a job as a truck mechanic for a local repair shop in New Jersey, unable to drive himself. He is then offered a job by his manager, Cutler (Graham Beckel) to drive a load of toilets from Atlanta to New Jersey for $10,000. Crews initially declines the offer, but then finds out that his house will be repossessed unless he pays off his debt. He then changes his mind and takes the job where he flies down to Atlanta to meet up with Red (Meat Loaf), who runs the trucking yard.

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Red initially gives Crews a brand-new truck to haul the load, but Crews chooses a 4-year old Peterbilt 379 in order to not draw too much attention. He is accompanied on the trip by Earl (Randy Travis) riding shotgun, and Sonny (Gabriel Casseus) and Wes (Brian Vincent) following in Sonnys Chevrolet Camaro for policy protection. As they make their way to New Jersey, Crews and the guys experience several run-ins with Red and his crew as they attempt to hijack the load, in retaliation for the failed negotiations with Cutler about money. During the trip, Crews finds out that his load also contains illegal guns (over $3,000,000 worth, according to ATF), and that Wes has been informing Red of their whereabouts throughout the trip. Crews also discovers that Sonny is an FBI agent when he is shot and killed by Red during another hijack attempt, and that the FBI has been tracking their whereabouts as well.

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Things take a turn for the worse when Cutler takes Crews wife Melanie and daughter Tracy hostage to ensure that Crews will complete the job and finish the entire trip. Despite the numerous attempts from Red to hijack the load, Crews manages to survive each attempt. When they make it to Maryland, Crews now officially knows what the whole plot is and formulates a plan to turn over the guns to the FBI and to get his family back. Wes, at this point has gone his separate way, while Earl decides to stay on until the end. Crews puts the FBI tracking device on the truck that Wes is leaving on and eventually the FBI pulls over the truck to realize it is the wrong one. However, Crews calls Agent Allen Ford (Charles Dutton) who is leading the case on Wes cell phone. He tells him his plan which is to meet him at a loading dock in Jersey, where he will be meeting with Cutler to exchange the guns for his family.

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Eventually when the meeting occurs, the FBI shows up and a shootout occurs with Cutlers men. Crews is able to catch Cutler before he can escape and then turns him over to the FBI. As a token of gratitude, the FBI gives Crews his commercial drivers license back, and also tells Crews that his house wont be foreclosed, in return for his assistance during the operation and they thank him for bringing Sonnys body back. He is also given the key to drive the truck one last time to the impound lot. Also, Crews thanks Earl, who was wounded in the shootout between the FBI and Cutlers men, for staying, and in return Earl tells Crews to take care of his dog, Tiny (a pit bull riding in the trailer as a guard), until he heals and everything is sorted out.

As Crews and his family leave the docks for the impound lot, they are intercepted by Red who makes one last attempt at Crews life, but ultimately their slamming into each other causes Red to lose control of his truck, which then flips over numerous times before getting hit by a Fairbanks-Morse H-12-44 Switching Locomotive and exploding.

Cast

  • Patrick Swayze as Jack Crews
  • Randy Travis as Earl
  • Meat Loaf as Red
  • Gabriel Casseus as Sonny
  • Brian Vincent as Wes
  • Graham Beckel as Frank Cutler
  • Brenda Strong as Melanie Crews
  • Rusty DeWees as Junior
  • Cyril OReilly as Vince
  • Erin Broderick as Tracy Crews
  • Charles S. Dutton as FBI Agent Allen Ford
  • Stephen Tobolowsky as ATF Agent McClaren
  • Lorraine Toussaint as FBI Agent Avery
  • Soundtrack

    A soundtrack album for the film, featuring various country music artists, was released in April 1998 via Decca Records Nashville. It peaked at number 30 on Top Country Albums.

    Content and reception

    Thom Owens gave the soundtrack a mixed review in Allmusic, praising the performances of Randy Travis, David Lee Murphy, and Rhett Akins.

    Among the cuts on the soundtrack, Rhett Akins "Drivin My Life Away" (a cover of Eddie Rabbitt) and Linda Daviss "I Wanna Remember This" were both released as singles. Patty Loveless "On Down the Line" was previously a single from her 1990 album of the same name, and Steve Earles "Nowhere Road" a single from his 1987 album Exit 0. David Lee Murphys "We Cant All Be Angels" also appeared on his 1997 album of the same name, Lee Ann Womacks "A Man with 18 Wheels" previously appeared on her 1997 self-titled debut, Big Houses "Road Man" previously appeared on their 1997 self-titled debut, and Chris Knights "The Hammer Going Down" appeared on his 1998 self-titled debut. "Highway Junkie", recorded here by Gary Allan, was previously recorded by Randy Travis on his 1996 album Full Circle.

    Similar Movies

    High-Ballin (1978). Patrick Swayze appears in Black Dog and Road House. Breaker! Breaker! (1977). Patrick Swayze appears in Black Dog and Point Break. Gary Levinsohn was an executive producer for Black Dog and produced Snakes on a Plane.

    Track listing

    References

    Black Dog (film) Wikipedia
    Black Dog (film) IMDbBlack Dog (film) Rotten TomatoesBlack Dog (film) themoviedb.org