The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper is a 1981 film about infamous aircraft hijacker D. B. Cooper, who escaped with $200,000 after leaping from the back of a plane. The bulk of the film fictionalizes Cooper's escape after he landed on the ground. The film opens with the hijacker leaving a plane by its aft airway on a clear day, parachuting into a forest in Washington. The man is later identified as Jim Meade , an ex-Army man with big dreams. Meade escapes the manhunt using a jeep he had previously hidden in the forest and concealing the money in the carcass of a deer. He eventually meets up with his... estranged wife Hannah , who operates a river rafting company. Meanwhile, Meade is being hunted by Bob Gruen , an insurance investigator who was Meade's sergeant in the Army, and Meade's Army buddy Remson , who listened when Meade had talked about hijacking a plane. Gruen confronts the Meades at the rafting company, but they escape down the river. The Meades lead Gruen and Remson separately on a cross-country chase involving various stolen cars.
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| Release date: | November 13, 1981 |
| Directed by: | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Music by: | James Horner |
| Screenplay by: | Jeffrey Alan Fiskin |
| Adapted from: | Free Fall |
| Genre: | Adventure, Comedy |