Taglines: The hunter becomes the hunted.
Switchback movie storyline. F.B.I. agent Frank LaCrosse returns home to find his home has been broken into, his son is missing and Missy the babysitter is lying in a pool of her own insides. Her murder being the hallmarks of a elusive enigmatic serial killer whose slaughter spree… stretches nearly two years. Frank’s desperate pursuit leads to Amarillo, Texas, where two more victims matching the killers M.O. have been found slashed to death.
As Frank searches for his suspect the local Sheriff Buck Olmstead and his Deputy Nate Booker investigate the killings in-between a heated election feud, with his competition police chief Jack McGinnis. All the while drifting former doctor Lane Dixon is picked up by ex-railroad man, Bob Goodall. As a local Mechanic, Clyde ‘Shorty’ Callahan becomes the latest victim. Frank hopes and prays to find this sociopath before he disappears perhaps forever into the rocky mountains.
Switchback is a 1997 American thriller film starring Danny Glover, Dennis Quaid, Claudia Stedelin, Brent Hinkley, William Fichtner, Ted Levine, Jared Leto, Gregory Scott Cummins and Tommy Puett, set in Amarillo, Texas and moving through New Mexico and Southern Colorado. It was written and directed by Jeb Stuart.
Switchback (1997)
Directed by: Jeb Stuart
Starring: Danny Glover, Dennis Quaid, Claudia Stedelin, Brent Hinkley, William Fichtner, Ted Levine, Jared Leto, Gregory Scott Cummins, Tommy Puett
Screenplay by: Jeb Stuart
Production Design by: Jeffrey Howard
Cinematography by: Oliver Wood
Film Editing by: Conrad Buff
Costume Design by: Betsy Heimann
Set Decoration by: Dena Roth
Art Direction by: Carl J. Stensel
Music by: Basil Poledouris
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and several views of nude pin-ups.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: October 31, 1997
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