Breakdown (1997 film)

Breakdown is a 1997 American adventure mystery thriller film directed and cowritten by Jonathan Mostow. The film stars Kurt Russell, J. T. Walsh in one of his final film roles, and Kathleen Quinlan. The original music score was composed by Basil Poledouris. The film was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Martha De Laurentiis and released on May 2, 1997 by Paramount Pictures.

Jeff then goes to a police station where he is instructed by a deputy to go back to the diner and wait for his wife. There Jeff meets with a simpleton mechanic named Billy, who says he saw Amy arrive in one truck and leave in another. He tells Jeff where they have taken her, but refuses to speak with the police, thinking that they may be involved. Jeff heads to the location Billy mentioned, but is ambushed on a back road by Earl, and escapes by driving his Jeep into a river. Abandoning the Jeep and later circling back to watch his attackers salvage the Jeep from the river, Jeff is discovered and knocked out by Billy, an accomplice who had feigned mental impairment earlier.Jeff awakens in the trunk of a car and is confronted by Billy and Earl and another accomplice named Al. Their leader, Red Barr, tells Jeff that his wife will be released in exchange for 90,000 that the kidnappers think Jeff has in his bank account. Knowing that he only has a small fraction of the assumed amount, Jeff enters a nearby bank to withdraw what little money he has. After a failed attempt to alert the bank manager to his plight, Jeff steals marked money ribbons and a letter opener from the managers desk Jeff uses the money ribbons to packetbills inbetween two 100 bills, fooling the kidnappers. With the ransom now in hand, Jeff is then instructed by phone to leave town, where he is picked up and bound with duct tape by Earl in his pickup truck. ........

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