Into the Homeland

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Into the Homeland
Genre Crime drama
Written by Anna Hamilton Phelan
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
Starring Powers Boothe
C. Thomas Howell
Cindy Pickett
Paul LeMat
Music by David Mansfield
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Producer Kevin McCormick
Production locations Buffalo, Wyoming
Sheridan, Wyoming
Los Angeles, California
San Juan Capistrano, California
Cinematography Robert Elswit
Editor Eve Newman
Running time110 minutes
Production company HBO Pictures
Original release
Network HBO
ReleaseDecember 26, 1987 (1987-12-26)

Into the Homeland is a 1987 made for TV 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. [1] [2] 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 cult that kidnapped his daughter.

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References

  1. "Into the Homeland". IMDB. Retrieved August 21, 2014.
  2. "Into the Homeland". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved August 21, 2014.