father hood be an entertaining tale of an unwilling father who be definitely a hood . patrick swayze play jack charles who be a hood always on the look out for the one big score that be go to put him on easy street . his wife die while he be be prison and his two kid be put in foster care . when he get out he think they be probably good off in foster care besides he still have to score his fortune . his daughter kathleen charles ( play wonderfully by sabrina lloyd ) break out of a foster care institution that be abuse the kid and misappropriate money that be suppose to be be spend on the kid . she hunt down her father while tell him about how bad the place be and that her brother and eddie charles ( play by brian bonsall ) and just a little 7 year old kid be be move to the institution that she have just break out of and convinces her father to kidnap him . the three start off on an adventure across country and all the while jack keep tell himself that he have to get rid of the kid . patrick swayze be really good in this comedy and play a hood ( probably a little understatement for this criminal character ) who be similar to his johnny castle character of dirty dance except jack be appropriately funny in this comedy and more optimistic than johnny castle . swayze be funny and rally do comedy pretty well . halle berry play kathleen mercer who be a reporter try to get at the truth of the foster care system who become sawyer ally . diane ladd play rita the con artist mother of jack charles .