Jeff and Amy Taylor are moving to California and must drive across the country. When they find themselves stranded in the middle of a desert with hardly anyone or anything around, their trip comes to a sudden halt. Amy had taken a ride with a friendly trucker to a small diner to call for help, but after a long time, Jeff becomes worried. He finds that no one in the diner has seen or heard from his wife. When he finds the trucker who gave Amy the ride, the trucker swears he has never seen her. Now Jeff must attempt to find his wife, who has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. But who ... can he trust?
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Breakdown Unsettling tale of roadside abduction starring Kurt Russell, Kathleen Quinlan and a terrifying JT Walsh
When townie Jeff Taylor (Russell) and his wife Amy (Quinlan) break down in their Jeep in the middle of nowhere, the smart thing to do seems to be to have Jeff go on ahead to fetch help with trucker 'Warren' (Walsh), who happens to be passing by. However, when Russell manages to fix the Jeep and catches up with Warren, he denies having ever seen his wife.
Russell's frantic search for her raises memories of The Vanishing, Blood Simple and a touch of Duel, but director Mostow manages to extract enough tension from his material to make this a...
Simple but fun
I didn't really know what this was when i went to see it, just happened to catch it at the cinema, but i'm really glad i did. It's basically about this guy who's car breaks down in the desert while he's travelling with his wife. A trucker stops and gives her a lift, but never comes back, and later Kurt Russel gets his car started and finds the trucker, but the trucker denies any knowledge of ever having met him, or his wife. The build-up is really gradual, with only a few hints of hostility and weirdness which add to the mystery of what happens later. Kurt Russel is really good - it's not his usual brawny role, on the contrary, he comes across as quite an ineffectual...
When townie Jeff Taylor (Russell) and his wife Amy (Quinlan) break down in their Jeep in the middle of nowhere, the smart thing to do seems to be to have Jeff go on ahead to fetch help with trucker 'Warren' (Walsh), who happens to be passing by. However, when Russell manages to fix the Jeep and catches up with Warren, he denies having ever seen his wife. Russell's frantic search for her raises memories of The Vanishing, Blood Simple and a touch of Duel, but director Mostow manages to extract enough tension from his material to make this a thoroughly enjoyable thriller with a fine, menacing performance from Walsh.
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