Desperate Hours: An Amber Alert
Edward "Eddie" Larson (Tom Berenger) is a criminal who doesn't refuse to commit any crime. He attacks some cowboys around a bonfire, steals the car of two sweet elderly ladies, and then steals a convinience store. He also steals a Betty Boo doll belonging to the young daughter of the owner. With all that, he approaches his old home, where he used to live with his ex-wife and his daughter. There, the audience learns that Larsan has just left prison. He demands to see his daughter, Sandie (Jessica Parker Kennedy), but she is out with her friends celebrating her birthday. His ex-wife, June (Dana McLoughlin), is already engaged to somebody else. Larson wants to revenge himself, but he seems to disregard his old wife, as she used to work as a stripper.Two girls are leaving a party: they want to go somewhere else, among the woods, to find boys. They park close to Larson, whose car has a burst tyre. Chris Geiger (Alexander Mendeluk) phones one of the girls, and he's told that there is only an old Cadillac with a glass-wearing old man -Larson, who goes over and over in his mind about his ex-wife's words. Chris is spending the holidays home from university and offers to pick the girls up.Katie Hughes (Torri Higginson) wants to travel to Italy on her own, but her mother won't allow it. Her boyfriend Pete (Tyler Johnston) arrives when Katie is thinking of leaving home. Katie and Pete go out to talk in a quiet place at night.Larson breaks into the two girls' car. He ties one girl to a rail. The car with Katie and Pete arrives. Larson also steals from them. Larson says that "it's going to be a horrible night". Larson kidnaps Katie and ties her with the other girl at the back seat with cellotape. Larson runs away with the two girls, Debra Gleason (Genevieve Buechner) and Katie. Pete phones the police. Agent Martha Gayer, (Tracie Hansen) the chief officer, thinks it may be a joke, but Sgt Lamm (Chad Cole) goes to check what's happening. The two mothers panick. Martha establishes an amber alert. The radio networks give public announcements.Tom (Greg Kean), Katie's father, arrives to console his hysterical ex-wife, who is about to go out to look for her daughter herself. Eddie stops at a road petrol station. His ex-wife recognises him, and Kaylie (Britt McKillip) says that he's written to her father some times, unbeknowst to June. Larson is the son of a violent father and a battered mother. Kaylie says that there is a lake where he used to go as a child, which used to make him feel free.Katie and Debra ask for a toilet break. Katie uses it to try to get a stone into the car which she'd try to hit Larson with. Larson discovers it, but doesn't hurt Katie after all. Katie's parents reconcile due to the harsh circumstances.A boy (Jake D. Smith) recognises him. Larson falls asleep, and the girls puck up his knife. The girls won't dare cutting his throat, but Debra finally stabs a knife onto his chest.The girls run away. They are found by the police, and their parents are really happy to have them back. However, Eddie doesn't sell his life easily, until he is killed.
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