***SPOILERS*** True story of 17 going on 18 year old Stacy Sapp, Tracey Gold, who ran away from home to find both love and adventure only finding herself kidnapped by her "lover" ex-convict Richard Brown, Thomas Calabro, and held for a $30,000.00 ransom. It was the naive Stacy falling for Brown's sweet talk about eternal love that he had for her that tricked her to go along with him as his flunky of a friend of his Eddie,Matt Letscher, on a crime spree that never really materialized. That in Stacy not wanting to go along with the two knowing where it would lead her to; Jail or an early grave.
With Eddie wimping out and after wetting his pants and ending up in police custody it's up to Stacy's parents Mr.& Mrs. Sapp's, Nick Searcy & Bess Armstrong, the job to get the ransom money and hand it over to Brown who's couped up with a terrified Stacy in a motel room with him armed to the teeth ready to go out in a blaze of glory if the police or FBI interfere. With the head of the FBI unit Jed Harris, Terence Knox, playing it cool and calling the dogs, or FBI snipers, off it kept Brown from going psycho and giving him and his men time to talk some sense into him before he ends up flipping out.
***SPOILERS**** It's at the very last moment after shooting up the near-by diner where the police & FBI are hiding in that Brown sees the light and does the right thing. Releasing Stacey and later, with him in the police cross-hairs, Brone peacefully surrenders and is taken into custody before anyone is killed. Based on a true story the movie shows that both good police work and not going off the handle by fugitive Richard Brown prevented a bad situation from turning into a far worse one. That would have ended up with dozens of innocent people dead and wounded like we've seen over the years since then.
With Eddie wimping out and after wetting his pants and ending up in police custody it's up to Stacy's parents Mr.& Mrs. Sapp's, Nick Searcy & Bess Armstrong, the job to get the ransom money and hand it over to Brown who's couped up with a terrified Stacy in a motel room with him armed to the teeth ready to go out in a blaze of glory if the police or FBI interfere. With the head of the FBI unit Jed Harris, Terence Knox, playing it cool and calling the dogs, or FBI snipers, off it kept Brown from going psycho and giving him and his men time to talk some sense into him before he ends up flipping out.
***SPOILERS**** It's at the very last moment after shooting up the near-by diner where the police & FBI are hiding in that Brown sees the light and does the right thing. Releasing Stacey and later, with him in the police cross-hairs, Brone peacefully surrenders and is taken into custody before anyone is killed. Based on a true story the movie shows that both good police work and not going off the handle by fugitive Richard Brown prevented a bad situation from turning into a far worse one. That would have ended up with dozens of innocent people dead and wounded like we've seen over the years since then.