Main Cast: John Rubinstein, Amber Kain, Sam Rockwell, Jane Lanier, Novella Nelson
Release Year: 1995
Country: US
Run Time: 85 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
A rich but bigoted man is forced to confront his ugliest prejudices face to face in this thriller. Frank Kramer (John Rubinstein) is a successful but narrow-minded attorney who comes home one day to discover that his daughter Nicole (Rhea Silver-Smith) is missing. Kramer shortly receives a telephone call from someone who claims to be holding his daughter hostage and gives him instructions to visit a pay phone in one of the most crime-ridden ghettos in New York City. Furious, but too worried not to follow orders, Kramer does as he's told and takes a call at the public phone -- only to be told to go to another phone booth in another, equally dangerous part of town. As Kramer dashes from telephone to telephone while being confronted by muggers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and angry people who simply don't want him in their neighborhood, it becomes evident that the kidnappers aren't just interested in money -- they have a personal grudge against Kramer, and they want their revenge to be psychological as much as financial. In time, Kramer discovers that he does indeed know one of the kidnappers -- Ruby (Amber Kain), the daughter of Kramer's maid, who has pulled the job with the help of her boyfriend -- and he discovers that his ex-wife is no more sympathetic to him than Ruby and her partner. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Rhea Silver-Smith - Nicole; Phil Brock - Phil Kline; Maura Tierney; Mark Mullin; Joe Donahue; Billy Lux; Christopher J. Quinn - Joey; Richard Gomez; Dan Atkins; Flottila Debarge; Judy Goldschmidt; Kevin Joseph; Ajay Mehta; Robert Shepard
Credit
Leanne Sharpton - Art Director, D.J. Atkins - Associate Producer, Adam Lichtenstein - Associate Producer, Thom Powers - Associate Producer, Barry Moss - Casting, Julie Hughes - Casting, Leonardo Iturregui - Costume Designer, David Wechsler - First Assistant Director, Richard Shepard - Director, Adam Lichtenstein - Editor, Rolfe Kent - Composer (Music Score), Anne Ross - Production Designer, Sarah Cawley - Cinematographer, Richard Shepard - Producer, Rolfe Kent - Producer, Rocky Collins - Producer, Irwin Strauss - Sound/Sound Designer, Richard Shepard - Screenwriter
