When the government fails you, how far would you go to save your own kids?
When Carol Gibbs becomes involved with religious- and political-cult leader Steve Riordan's anti-government movement, she takes her children and leaves her husband Louis. Louis, a young farmer, tries every legal and governmental means to get his children back, without success. At his wit's end, he hires private investigator Danny Leland to snatch his children from the cult.
Acting
Dylan Walsh's simmering desperation carries the whole thing
Direction
Skerritt's only directing credit—he knows how to build dread
Director
Tom Skerritt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Tom Skerritt's sole feature directing credit—he stepped behind the camera after decades in front of it, drawn to the script's ripped-from-the-headlines energy.
Released four years after Waco, the film channels very real 1990s anxieties about militia movements and sovereign citizen ideology that still echo today.
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