A small-town couple find themselves stranded in an unfamiliar, and unfriendly, big city. Weaving in and out of the proceedings are a bunch of murderous criminals with names like DOA, Ice and Slash. The couple are in for a night that they won't forget.
Acting
Richard Thomas desperately shedding his nice-guy image.
Practical Effects
Pre-CG car chases that actually feel dangerous.
Director
Michael Pressman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired on NBC the same year Richard Thomas returned to The Waltons reunion specials—he was literally alternating between wholesomeness and urban terror weekly.
Part of a mid-80s TV movie wave where Reagan-era anxieties about cities transformed into literal survival horror for suburban viewers.
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