Into the Homeland (1987)
- Directed by
- Lesli Linka Glatter
- Genre
- drama film, action film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A former police detective leaves his job and family after a traumatic event. Years later, he searches for his kidnapped daughter and uncovers a violent white supremacist group in rural Wyoming.
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What happens
Into the Homeland is a 1987 television crime drama that aired on HBO on December 26, 1987, directed by Lesli Linka Glatter and starring Powers Boothe, C. Thomas Howell, Paul LeMat, Emily Longstreth and Cindy Pickett. The teleplay was written by Anna Hamilton Phelan. In 1984, Jack Swallow (Boothe) is a Los Angeles Police Department detective who was unable to prevent a child's death during a drug raid. He leaves both the police force and his family to become a beach bum and surf shop owner of sorts in San Juan Capistrano, California. Three years later, his daughter turns up missing. He tracks her to her boyfriend (Howell) in rural Wyoming, whose father turns out to be the leader of a violent white power organization that kidnapped his daughter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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