Switchback
Directed by	Jeb Stuart
Produced by	Mel Efros Keith Samples Jeb Stuart Gale Anne Hurd
Written by	Jeb Stuart
Starring	Dennis Quaid Danny Glover Jared Leto Ted Levine William Fichtner and R. Lee Ermey
Music by	Basil Poledouris
Editing by	Conrad Buff
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (United States) Rysher Entertainment (worldwide)
Release date(s)	October 31, 1997
Running time	118 min.
Language	English

Switchback is a 1997 thriller starring Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, Ted Levine, with William Fichtner and R. Lee Ermey, set in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, and Amarillo Texas USA.

[edit] Plot

FBI agent Frank LaCrosse (Dennis Quaid) was in charge of tracking down an elusive serial killer, but when the killer kidnapped LaCrosse's young son, Andy (Ian Blake Nelson), he was taken off the case by superiors who felt that this latest development would destroy his objectivity. Frank is now more determined than ever to catch the killer, and he teams up with a small-town police department to continue his investigation. Meanwhile, a hitchhiker named Lane Dixon (Jared Leto) is picked up by Bob Goodall (Danny Glover), an affable drifter. It is later revealed that Bob is the killer, and he and Frank battle on the side of a train. Bob repeats to Frank that he has to kill him before he can find his son. Frank then lets go of Bob, and Bob falls off the train, laughing. He falls down a hill but is suddenly impaled on the back by a stick. Frank is grieving the chance he lost to find his son, but an injured Lane takes out a sharpie and writes something on the floor of the train, which leads the policeman to finding his son.

[edit] Cast

• Claudia Stedelin as Missy, the Babysitter
• Dennis Quaid as Frank LaCrosse
• Orville Stoeber as Hector Saldez
• Jared Leto as Lane Dixon
• Maggie Roswell as Fae
• Allison Smith as Becky
• Julio Oscar Mechoso as Jorge Martinez
• Kevin Cooney as Grant Montgomery
• Leo Burmester as Clyde 'Shorty' Callahan
• Donnie L. Betts as John, Patrolman
• Mark Curry as Robbie
• Paul Parducci as Man in Shower
• Sandy Ward as Tex Monroe
• Robert Peters as Colorado Trooper
• Christopher Michael as Colorado Trooper
• Tommy Puett as Ben
• Velvet Rhodes as Deputy Sheriff McLaughlin (uncredited)
• Christopher Senger as Bill Suderland (uncredited)

[edit] External links

• Switchback at the Internet Movie Database
• Movie review from the Cincinnati Enquirer

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