, 1h45 Directed byTed Kotcheff OriginUSA GenresDrama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure ThemesPolitique, Political films ActorsGene Hackman, Fred Ward, Patrick Swayze, Reb Brown, Tim Thomerson, Robert Stack Roles Jiang Rating62% Taking place in the early 1980s and set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, retired Marine Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) is obsessed with finding his son Frank, listed as "Missing In Action" since 1972. After ten years of searching Southeast Asia and turning up several leads, Rhodes believes that Frank is still alive and being kept in Laos as a prisoner of war.