Hide in Plain Sight
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Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
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In June , 1967 , THE U.S. Department of Justice abducted this man's children.
If they were your kids how do you suppose you'd feel?
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 instruct 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 government's offer. So, he and his wife and her children enter the program. Now her ex-husband goes to a lawyer because he wants to sue the government for keeping him away from his children.
Release Date: March 21, 1980
Distrib: MGM
Boxoffice: $3,806,930
Actor James Caan's one and only directorial effort was acclaimed by some but failed at the boxoffice.
Trivia: How many actors turned director have won Oscars in directing?
How many of those also won Oscars?
If they were your kids how do you suppose you'd feel?
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 instruct 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 government's offer. So, he and his wife and her children enter the program. Now her ex-husband goes to a lawyer because he wants to sue the government for keeping him away from his children.
Release Date: March 21, 1980
Distrib: MGM
Boxoffice: $3,806,930
Actor James Caan's one and only directorial effort was acclaimed by some but failed at the boxoffice.
Trivia: How many actors turned director have won Oscars in directing?
How many of those also won Oscars?
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