Movies
Father Hood
A stick-up man (mitigating circumstance: he only robs drug dealers) gets stuck with his two abandoned children, escapees of an abusive foster-care facility, en route to his next planned heist in New Orleans, with the cops of five states in hot pursuit. The movie has a bam-bam-bam rhythm, and a rackety background score, and a too-tightly-wound performance by Patrick Swayze (making much of his chewing gum, his shades, his Fifties rock-and-roller's pompadour). You are shown the happy ending at the very start, so you have nothing to worry about throughout the heavy turnover of stolen and wrecked vehicles. Sabrina Lloyd, as the teen daughter, looks ready for something more serious. With Halle Berry, Brian Bonsall; directed by Darrell James Roodt. 1993.
— Duncan Shepherd
Reader Rating:
- MPAA Rating: PG-13
