Crack House

Rating: 1
Tony Rating: 3

Summary/Review:

When this movie opened with a PSA from Richard Roundtree on the drug problem, I knew I was in for a rough go of it. I wasn't wrong. This movie is poorly written, poorly acted, and not even bad enough to be entertaining. It tells the story of a high school couple caught up in the world of crack cocaine and the cops who save them. Rick gets back into his old gang when the rival gang kills his cousin, then goes to jail. His girlfriend can't handle things without him, is sexually assaulted, and then falls in with Big Time, a drug pusher for the main drug lord in town, who gets her hooked on cocaine. To make a painfully long story short, she ends up as the drug lord's girl in the crack house, Rick strikes a deal with the cops (Richard Roundtree plays the primary investigator) to infiltrate and bring down the drug lord and save her, and all's well that ends well.

Anthony Geary:

I was disappointed when Tony first came on the screen playing a teacher (he wears glasses, has greying hair he brushes back away from his face, and wears a beard). Later, when he had the "I'm worried about you" scene with Melissa, I was more disappointed--but also suspicious. When Melissa and Big Time are desperate for drugs and he sends her into a house in a nice neighborhood to meet up with his connection, I realized this would be an interesting role after all. The teacher was also the drug supplier, and the audience is left to assume he forced Melissa to have sex with him before he would give her the drugs on credit. At the end, the teacher shows up to deliver drugs to the crack house, and gets caught in the police sting. He tries to leave the house, taking out a police officer or two along the way, and gets shot and killed. My favorite line in the movie came when Richard Roundtree's character looked at him lying in a half-zipped body bag and said, "We have to start paying these teachers more money."

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