Jd's Revenge [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Glynn Turman Louis Gossett Jr. Joan Pringle Carl W. Crudup James Watkins
	Video by:	MGM (Video & DVD)
	Sales Rank:	183714

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Actor(s):
Glynn Turman
Louis Gossett Jr.
Joan Pringle
Carl W. Crudup
James Watkins

Recording label: MGM (Video & DVD)
EAN: 9780792843269
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 0792843266
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC,
Release Date: 2001-01-09
Universal product code (UPC): 027616796233
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: R (Restricted)

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It's been branded with the "blaxploitation" label, but there is little that's exploitive in J.D.'s Revenge, a film of well-drawn, articulate characters dragged into a supernatural showdown. Glynn Turman (Cooley High) is especially fine as the sensitive and quiet Ike, a determined student moonlighting as a cab driver, so wound up he's on the verge of cracking. Enter (literally) the ghost of J.D., a violent, vengeful gangster murdered in the opening moments. He could be Ike's own Mr. Hyde, a dapper, flamboyant ladykiller with a fiery temper and a straight razor who slowly smothers Ike's easygoing personality. Driven by flashes of memory, he sets his vengeful sights on fire-and-brimstone preacher Reverend Bliss (Louis Gossett Jr.), whose dark past is intricately tied up with J.D.'s murder. Director Arthur Marks (Detroit 9000) sidesteps the usual spooky clichés to stir up a modern New Orleans gumbo of ghost story, gangster tale, and character drama. J.D. is both devilish sadist and avenging angel, while the tortured Ike awakens from J.D.'s violent rampages with a hole in his memory but a sick feeling from his imagined complicity in the crimes. The story gets wrapped up a little too neatly in the end, but the dark character shadings and the evocative mystery at the center of Ike's possession makes J.D.'s Revenge an unexpectedly compelling supernatural thriller. --Sean Axmaker

Running time: 96 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)