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C. Thomas Howell plays an innocent young guy paid to drive a car across America who decides on a whim to pick up a hitch hiker. It's a mistake that could cost him his liberty, and even his life, as the psychopathic hitcher, who simply enjoys killing people, sets him up as the fall guy for his crimes, as well as pursuing him and a waitress with deadly purpose.

Keywords:

Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(1986) (4 Star)

Cast:

Rutger Hauer	.... John Ryder
C. Thomas Howell	.... Jim Halsey
Jennifer Jason-Leigh	.... Nash Galveston

Supporting Cast:

Jeffrey DeMunn	.... Captain Esteridge
John M. Jackson	.... Sergeant Starr
Billy Green Bush	.... Trooper Donner
Jack Thibeau	.... Trooper Prestone
Armin Shimerman	.... Interrogation Sergeant
Gene Davis	.... Trooper Dodge
Jon Van Ness	.... Trooper Hapscomb
Henry Darrow	.... Trooper Hancock
Tony Epper	.... Trooper Conners
Tom Spratley	.... Proprietor
Colin Campbell	.... Construction Man

Directors:

Robert Harman

Writers:

Eric Red

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