He steals a child to save himself. What could possibly go wrong?
A directionless and emotionally scarred young man kidnaps his niece, the daughter of his sister with whom he has a difficult past.
Acting
Jordan Christopher simmers with repressed rage throughout.
Direction
Guenette's TV-doc background keeps it uncomfortably intimate.
Director
Robert Guenette
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Connecticut with a crew of mostly TV veterans; Eileen Heckart won an Oscar three years earlier but took this gritty role for scale.
Largely forgotten despite hitting the same notes as Five Easy Pieces and later indie darlings; deserves rediscovery or maybe deserves its obscurity—you decide.
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