A 61-minute kidnapping where Stockholm Syndrome becomes... wholesome? The '80s were weird, folks.
Two boys are kidnapped by three escaping convicts and the relationship which develops between captor and captured brings out the good side of the most dangerous criminal's character.
Acting
David Jackson's softboiled criminal with inexplicable heart of gold.
Direction
Frank Godwin commits to this tonal whiplash with baffling sincerity.
Writing
Kidnapping-as-friendship plot that somehow plays it straight.
Director
Frank Godwin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1984 British TV movie has virtually no online presence—TMDB shows zero votes, suggesting it may have aired once and vanished into VHS obscurity.
The 'kidnappers with hearts of gold' trope peaked in '80s family entertainment—see also Ruthless People (1986)—but this one plays it bizarrely straight rather than comedic.
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