Soul Plane
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| Directed by | Jessy Terrero |
| Produced by | David Rubin |
| Written by | Bo Zenga, Babygrande Guy Chuck Wilson |
| Starring | Snoop Dogg, Method Man, Tom Arnold, Kevin Hart |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | 28 May 2004 (USA) |
| Running time | 85 min , 92 min uncut |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~ US$16,000,000 |
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Soul Plane is a comedy motion picture from MGM, released in the United States on May 28, 2004 (see 2004 in film). The predominantly African-American comedy stars Method Man, Tom Arnold, Sommore, D.L. Hughley, Mo'Nique, K.D. Aubert, John Witherspoon, Loni Love, Ryan Pinkston, Godfrey, Ying Yang Twins, Francine Dee, Lil' Jon, and Snoop Dogg.
Soul Plane deals with a man who starts an airline that caters to African Americans. However, the movie includes a white family, led by Tom Arnold, who also take a trip on the soul plane.
The story roughly follows that of the 1980 hit film Airplane!, with an allusion to that film and the TV show Soul Train in the title.
[edit] Plot
After Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart) gets stuck in an airline toilet, the plane suffers a minor disaster and, as a result, his dog is sucked through a jet engine. He then sues the airline. After getting a large settlement of $100,000,000 he decides to start his own airline, called NWA (Nashawn Wade Airlines), whose acronym and logo are a pop culture reference to rap group NWA. The airline specifically caters to African Americans and hip hop culture. The terminal at the airport is called the Malcolm X terminal, the plane is customized with low-rider hydraulics, spinners, and a dance club. The safety video is also a spoof of the Destiny's Child song Survivor. It's the first flight for NWA and Nashawn is trying to deal with a multitude of problems. His pilot Captain Mack (Snoop Dogg) has never flown before, learned to fly in prison and is afraid of heights, his partner, Muggsey (Method Man), is setting up a miniature casino and strip joint in one of the areas on the plane, and Nashawn's ex-girlfriend is on board and less than happy to see him. In another part of the plane the family Hunkee is dealing with problems of their own. Aside from being the only white people on the flight, Elvis Hunkee's (Tom Arnold) daughter is turning eighteen and plans to allegedly use the newfound freedom by drinking and having sex, his son has transformed in a matter of seconds from an exact duplicate of him to a loud wannabe gangster, and his girlfriend has found a new interest in black men after viewing pictures in a pornographic magazine. The pilot seemingly dies, after eating mushrooms that the co-pilot uses to soothe his genital crabs. Nashawn then attempts to contact the co-pilot, who is incapacitated after slipping on the water located around the hot tub, forcing Nashawn to attempt to land the plane himself. Nashawn then lands the plane safely, using the airplane stewardess' flight knowledge learned while having sex in the cockpit with the pilot on another flight, in the middle of Central Park only to have the spinners stolen from the plane. He then gets back together with his ex girlfriend after earlier revealing to her that he only broke up with her so she wouldn't give up her college opportunities for him. The pilot soon after wakes up, and realizes that he is on the plane alone and was mugged while sleeping. The movie then ends with the Nashawn telling the audience the fate of his crew. He claims that he and his ex girlfriend are back together taking their relationship slow this time around, his cousin Muggsey has started a strip club and gambling casino located in an airplane similar to the club in Nashawn's plane, Elvis Hunkee has begun a sexual relationship with Monique's perverteded character who had earlier in the movie sexually assaulted the same African American male athlete that Barbara left Hunkee for, and Elvis Hunkee's son has become a major music video director but has disappeared shortly after filming a Michael Jackson video (this references the child molestation charges that had been filed against Michael Jackson in both 1993 and 2003).
[edit] Cast
| Actors/Actresses | Role |
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| Tom Arnold | Elvis Hunkee |
| Kevin Hart | Nashawn |
| Method Man | Muggsy |
| Snoop Dogg | Captain Mack |
| K. D. Aubert | Giselle |
| Godfrey | Gaeman |
| Brian Hooks | DJ |
| D. L. Hughley | Johnny |
| Arielle Kebbel | Heather Hunkee |
| Loni Love | Shaniece |
| Mo'Nique | Jamiqua |
| Ryan Pinkston | Billy Hunkee |
| Missi Pyle | Barbara Hunkee |
| Sommore | Cherry |
| Sofía Vergara | Blanca |
| Gary Anthony Williams | Flame |
| John Witherspoon | Blind Man |
| Angell Conwell | Tamika |
