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Switchback is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Jeb Stuart released in USA on 31 october 1997 with Dennis Quaid
Switchback (1997)
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Add to a movie listSwitchback is a 1997 thriller starring Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, Ted Levine, William Fichtner and R. Lee Ermey, set in Amarillo, Texas and moving through
New Mexico & Southern Colorado. It was written and directed by Jeb Stuart.
Synopsis
A woman is killed while babysitting a young boy; the killer takes him when he leaves the house. A few months later a man and cleaning woman are killed at a motel in Amarillo, Texas. Amarillo's longtime sheriff, Buck Olmstead (R. Lee Ermey), is up for reelection. Both he and opponent, city police chief Jack McGinnis (William Fichtner) are eager to be the one to solve a big murder case before Election Day. Meanwhile, a hitchhiker named Lane Dixon (Jared Leto) is picked up by Bob Goodall (Danny Glover), an affable drifter.Actors
Dennis Quaid
(FBI Special Agent Frank LaCrosse)
Danny Glover
(Bob Goodall)
Jared Leto
(Lane Dixon)
Ted Levine
(Deputy Nate Booker)
William Fichtner
(Chief Jack McGinnis)
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