Rob just gets out of jail and is waiting for some friends of his to come pick him up. He lives in California where the law states that an convicted felon can only be convicted three times before he is sentenced to jail for life.
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This movie focuses around a young african american man named Rob who just got out of jail.
Because sometimes, you fall asleep watching a mediocre rental, and would rather return it on time than pay two more bucks just to see the end.Because sometimes, your TiVo timer didn’t get it quite right, and cut off the crucial final minutes of something that won’t get shown again for six months.Because sometimes, you’re not interested in seeing that movie everyone’s talking about but are dying to know what the hubbub is about anyway.Because sometimes, you vaguely remember an old movie that had some sort of plot twist at the end of it, but can’t remember what it was.Because sometimes, the surprise “spoiler” ending is the only reason you’d pay $11 to see what is otherwise a turkey of a film.The film’s final text states that Rob was released early due to prison overcrowding. Rob’s father (George Wallace) tells him that he will pick him up himself when he gets out so he will actually get home.
However, he still nails Rob for violating his parole due to not having met his parole officer after his release, and he sentences him to thirty days in prison for that, but says that it will not count as a third strike. They make it there, where Libowitz and Wilson are waiting for them, but so are the cops, and Rob is promptly handcuffed.Īt the courthouse some time later, the judge tells Libowitz and the prosecutor that, after having heard the tape himself, it is clear that Rob is not guilty. Rob then continues eluding the police, which sees his car getting wrecked by their gunfire and SWAT units and helicopters getting called in, but Mike manages to find Rob and pick him up so he can get to the church. Church in ten minutes so he can get a highlight story on the shooting incident. He makes his way back to his car and phones up Mike, and he tells him to call up Libowitz immediately, and also requests for him to call up news reporter Stan Wilson (Bennet Guillory) and have him meet him (Rob) at the First A.M.E. Of course, Brian quickly finds himself running away from the police as well. He then finds himself face-to-face with Tone and his gang, but just as they start putting a pounding on him, the police – having tracked Rob down through a tap in his parents’ phone – pull up to the house, forcing them to retreat. Dahlia tells Rob that she will give him the tape in exchange for a good time in bed with him, much to his disgust, but he is eventually able to sneak out with the tape before things get too hot and heavy. Before going to meet her, he visits his friend Mike (E-40) and asks him to find him a good lawyer that can help him out, so he agrees to ring up Libowitz (Phil Morris) for him.ĭahlia has an argument with Blue over the recording and other matters, and after he steps outside to blow off some steam, he sees Rob coming up to the house, so he takes off to find Tone (Faizon Love) and his crew so they can beat him up for abandoning J.J. He later calls Dahlia up and she confirms that she has this tape. admits to him that only he shot at the cops and stole the car and that he plans to have Rob take the heat for everything). (De’aundre Bonds) and the police, and she got a call from Dahlia (Mo’Nique), a woman he knows, who said that she has a tape that could keep Rob out of jail (the tape is an answering machine recording her brother Blue unknowingly made while he was talking to J.J., where J.J. When Rob (Brian Hooks) calls his mother (Starletta DuPois) while hiding out in a hotel, she tells him that she knows of the shooting incident he had with J.J.