Spark (1998)
103 min
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.
- Release date
- January 16, 1998
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Terrence Howard as Byron
- Nicole Ari Parker as Nina
- Brendan Sexton III as Mooney
- Sandra Ellis Lafferty as Deb
- Timothy McNeil as Stuart
- Tom Gilroy as Jack
- George Gerdes as Earl
- Dewey Weber as Toby
- William Prael as Deputy
- William Bell as Otis
Crew
- Garret Williams · Director
- Garret Williams · Writer
- Ruth Charny · Producer
- Lynn Holst · Producer
- Bob Potter · Producer
- Marc Anthony Thompson · Composer
- Samuel Ameen · Cinematographer
- Fabienne Rawley · Editor
- Chemin Sylvia Bernard · Casting director
- Carol Strober · Production designer