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Switchback (1997)

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Reviews Counted:24

Fresh:8

Rotten:16

Average Rating:4.9/10

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: A renegade FBI agent (Dennis Quaid) defies the Bureau to track the killer who has kidnapped his son.

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, Ted Levine

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, Ted Levine, William Fichtner, Leo Burmester, R. Lee Ermey, Claudia Stedelin

Director: Jeb Stuart

Director: Jeb Stuart
Screenwriter: Jeb Stuart
Composer: Basil Poledouris
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd

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Leonard Klady
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Variety
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A superb, underrated drama

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12/07/06
Lori Hoffman
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Atlantic City Weekly

High-class thriller, with a superb turn by Quaid

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03/11/06
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Moviehole

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10/10/05
Jake Euker
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F5 (Wichita, KS)

A well-done suspense-thriller...Has modest aspirations, but meets them admirably.

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Todd Jorgenson
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Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

The striking American West setting enlivens this efficient, rote thriller.

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Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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