Black Dog (film)

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

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.Red initially gives Crews a brandnew truck to haul the load, but Crews chooses a older 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 runins 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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