Undertow (1996 film)

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Undertow
Genre	Crime; Drama; Thriller
Written by	Eric Red; Kathryn Bigelow
Directed by	Eric Red
Starring	Lou Diamond Phillips
Theme music composer	John Frizzell
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	David Perlmutter; Lewis Chesler
Producers	Tom Kuhn; Fred Weintraub; David Baird; Rick Nathanson; Robertas Urbonas; Jackie Weintraub
Cinematography	Geza Sinkovics
Editor	Claudia Finkle
Running time	89 minutes
Production companies	Lietuvos Kinostudija; Showtime Networks; Weintraub/Kuhn Productions
Original release
Release	March 24, 1996

Undertow is a 1996 American TV thriller film directed by Eric Red.

Plot

A man's car breaks down and he seeks shelter in a remote shack in the woods, where he is held at gunpoint by a deranged mountain man.

Cast

Lou Diamond Phillips as Jack Ketchum
Mia Sara as Willie Yates
Charles Dance as Lyle Yates

Reception

TVGuide.com rated it 2 out of 5 stars.^[1] Carole Horst of Variety.com wrote that it "drowns in a fuzzy script and amateurish direction that fail to build tension or sympathy for the leads."^[2]

References

^ "Undertow".
^ "Undertow". 22 March 1996.

External links

Undertow at IMDb

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[1] "Undertow".

[2] "Undertow". 22 March 1996.

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