| Release Date: | Mar 1980 |
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Cast: | James Caan (Thomas Hacklin), Jill Eikenberry (Alisa / Ali), Robert Viharo (Jack Scolese), Joe Grifasi (Matty Stanke), Barbra Rae (Ruthie Hacklin), Kenneth McMillan (Sam Marzetta), Josef Sommer (Jason R. Reid, Justice Dept. Strike...), Danny Aiello (Sal Carvello), Thomas Hill (Bobby Momisa), Chuck Hicks (Frankie Irish), Andy Fenwick (Andy Hacklin (as Andrew Gordon Fenwick)), Heather Bicknell (Junie Hacklin), David Clennon (Richard Fieldston), Peter Maloney (Lee McHugh), Ken Sylk (Frantuzzi), David Margulies (Detective Reilly), Jude Farese (Carmine), Leonardo Cimino (Don Angelo Venucci), Nick Corello (Flacco), Tom Signorelli (Moriarity), Anne Helm (Reid's Secretary), Robert Gerringer (), Terrence Currier (Congressman Evetts), Josephine Nichols (Hacklin's Mother), Walter Scott (FBI Agent Sheeler), James De Closs (Ray Reilly), Danny Costa (Dink), Charles Hallahan (Dixon (bartender)), Eddy Donno (Man at Party), Alice Drummond (Mrs. Novack), Beatrice Winde (Unemployment Clerk), Gerald Aleck Cantor (Jackie's Driver), Dino Zanghi (Man at Treasury Dept.), H. Jack Jaeger (Security Guard), Nancy Weber (Waitress), Sidney Ehrenreich (Bartender), Gary Pace (Piano Player), Carolyn Ferrini (Singer at Spring Fling), Vinnie De Carlo (Chick), Vincent Cavalleri (Man at Ballgame), Lorena McDonald (Crossing Guard), John Kiouses (Teenage Boy), Mina Evans (Teenage Girl), Jeff Ring (Reporter #1), Keith Watts (News Photographer), H.P. Evetts (Frankie's Driver), Ken Bellet (Man at Unemployment Office), Frederick Seaton (Hippie), Anne McLeod (Waitress), Tony Mancini (Out-of-Towners), Ben Gerard (Out-of-Towners), Madonna Young (Carvello's Secretary), Sam Ippolito (Warehouse Forman), Joey Giambra (Italian Cook), Irv Weinstein (Newscaster) |
This was based on a true story. About a man (Caan) who discovers that his ex-wife has disappeared along with their children. It seems that her new boyfriend works for some criminals. After being arrested, the government offers to let him enter, the newly developed Witness Protection Program in exchange for testifying against his employers. His bosses instructs him to marry his girlfriend so that she can't testify against him, they promise that they will take care of her. When he learns that they have done nothing, he accepts the governments offer. So, he and his wife and her children enter the program. Now her ex-husband goes to a lawyer cause he wants to sue the government for keeping him away from his children.
