Carol Burnett goes dark in this forgotten '80s TV thriller where nobody's innocent.
After five hard years behind bars Bonnie Lee is still haunted by her past which hides a terrible secret and hunted by her father, a man desperate for revenge and a need to silence her forever... Alone on the run, she will do whatever it takes to survive and find the one person who can clear her name - her mother. She's a desperate woman on a desperate mission and the only person who can save her is the only person who cares... her Hostage .
Acting
Burnett's against-type intensity; Carrie Hamilton's desperate energy.
Direction
Levin squeezes genuine tension from TV-drama constraints.
Director
Peter Levin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Carrie Hamilton was Burnett's real daughter; their fractured onscreen dynamic carries uncomfortable authenticity.
This aired on CBS in 1988, part of a brief wave of 'women in jeopardy' TV movies before the genre calcified into formula.
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