Al Stevenson

Three bounty hunters from space fly back to the town of Grovers Bend, hoping to save local residents from a new batch of Critter eggs.

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.

In this drama, a Louisiana black man has brought his family to Los Angeles to fulfill his dream of opening his own bakery. For him, it was a great gamble as he had no credit, and little money. Still, he manages to get the bakery going. Unfortunately, the business is not able to sustain itself and the fellow is forced to close it down and take a sanitation job.