The Kidnapping of the President
R
5.3
1980
1 hr 54 min
Adventure
, Drama
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto.
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- Cast:
- William Shatner , Hal Holbrook , Van Johnson , Ava Gardner , Maury Chaykin , Elizabeth Shepherd , Miguel Fernandes
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This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
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Sadly Over-hyped
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After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
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