Father Hood

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Father Hood
Directed by Darrell Roodt
Produced by Gillian Gorfil
Nicholas Pileggi
Anant Singh
Written by Scott Spencer
Starring Patrick Swayze
Halle Berry
Sabrina Lloyd
Brian Bonsall
Martha Veléz
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s) 27 August 1993
Running time 95 min.
Country USA
IMDb profile

Father Hood is a 1993 comedy film film starring Patrick Swayze and directed by Darrell Roodt.

[edit] Plot

A jailbird's (Swayze) kids are put in state-run homes when their mother dies. His teenage daughter escapes the abusive home where she lives, and convinces her now temporarily free father to pick up her younger brother too. At first he tries to dump them with his mother, who's a gambler and a cheat that the the cops are after her too. He then takes the kids to New Orleans with him, where he plans to pull off a big job that could set him up for life.