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Plot summary
Late one night, a woman watching a young boy is killed, and the boy disappears. Months later, FBI special agent Frank LaCrosse comes to Amarillo, Texas, certain that a serial killer who has eluded a federal task force for nearly two years is hiding there and holds his son, Andy. Officials had removed LaCrosse from the investigation because the missing boy is his own. A note from the killer tells him that finding Andy means killing the man first. Sheriff Buck Olmstead, running for reelection against police chief Jack McGinnis, wants a solved murder case before voters go to the polls and is wary of the agent's methods. Meanwhile, a hitchhiker named Lane Dixon accepts a ride from a drifter, Bob Goodall, in a white Cadillac.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Switchback (1997)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- 20th Century Fox considered buying Jeb Stuart's script in 1991 as a star vehicle for Steven Seagal, but the plan ended when Seagal fell into a dispute with the studio over his unmade directorial debut, Man of Honor.
- The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Snowplow AX-044, seen near the end of the film, is listed on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties and is on permanent display at the Pioneer Village Museum in Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado.
