Switchback is a 1997 thriller starring Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, Ted Levine, William Fichtner and R. Lee Ermey, set in Amarillo, Texas. It was directed by Jeb Stuart. A woman is killed babysitting a young boy, the killer takes him when he leaves the house. A few months later a man and cleaning woman are killed at a motel in Amarillo. Amarillo's longtime sheriff, Buck Olmstead , is up for reelection, so both he and opponent Jack McGinnis are eager to be the one to solve a big murder case before Election Day. Meanwhile, a hitchhiker named Lane Dixon is picked up by Bob Goodall ,... an affable drifter. FBI agent Frank LaCrosse turns up in Amarillo and tells them he is in charge of tracking down an elusive serial killer, the person he suspects is responsible for the murders. Olmstead discovers that LaCrosse has been taken off the case by superiors. LaCrosse explains that the boy that was kidnapped was in fact LaCrosse's young son Andy , a fact which means he was taken off the case.
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| Release date: | October 31, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Jeb Stuart |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Producer: | Gale Anne Hurd |
| Editor: | Conrad Buff |
| Music by: | Basil Poledouris |
| Cinematography: | Oliver Wood |
| Screenplay by: | Jeb Stuart |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |