Spark

Release Date: 1998-01-16

Overview: Byron and Nina, a young African American couple, are driving from Chicago to Los Angeles, where Nina plans to start college, when they are forced to stop in a small, desert place just this side of a ghost town. Unaccustomed to confronting racism and bigotry on the scale preserved in this rural anachronism, Byron's confrontational response to slurs, epithets and threats quickly leads to a fight for survival -- and the Chicago couple is alone and outnumbered.

Rating: 6 / 10

Cast

Terrence Howard

as Byron

Nicole Ari Parker

as Nina

Brendan Sexton III

as Mooney

Sandra Ellis Lafferty

as Deb

Timothy McNeil

as Stuart