ROAD DOGS

TUESDAY 4 NOVEMBER AT MIDDAY UGC HAYMARKET SCREEN 1

Country USA Running Time 90 mins Format Super16 Dir Dedtrich McClure Prod Dan Halperin, Scott Frank DoP David Morrison Cast Glenn Plummer, Chris Spencer, J Lamont Pope, Reggie McFadden, Wayne DeHart Print Source Epiphany Pictures E dan@epiphanypictures.com

Detdrich McClure's feature debut is a contemporary take on Easy Rider following two men as they take to the road and leave their violent pasts behind. Panther (Plummer) is an exgang member who believes that his life will straighten out the minute he leaves LA. With his faithful sidekick, Ray (Spencer) the pair head east on motorbikes. Their quest for booze and broads is interrupted when they pick up a hitchhiker, College Boy (Pope), a film student trying to get to Washington DC. Fate then deals the hapless trio a series of wild cards no better then the racism and violence from which they have fled.

Music forms a big part of Road Dogs. The producers astutely hired hip hop impresario Donnie Anderson, Snoop Dogg's manager. Anderson tapped artists as diverse as Korn and Mystic to perform original material. Macy Gray's producer, Daryll Swann also created a haunting musical score with songs by Debelah Morgan and ODB of Wu Tang Clan. Road Dogs covers an amazing panorama of some of America's beauty spots and is gloriously photographed. Plummer (Colors, Menace II Society), Spencer (last seen at Raindance in Fakin' da Funk) and Pope (Family Matters) give outstanding performances. A fast-paced and thoroughly enjoyable road movie. EG

Detdrich McClure studied design, architecture and film at Savannah College of Art and Design. Moving to LA, he worked on film sets while writing and directing shorts and music videos. Detdrich just completed his second feature, Out Kold starring Ice T.