Friday, August 14, 2015

A Killer in the Family (1983)


ABC
Directed by Richard T. Heffron
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)

Dad and prison inmate Robert Mitchum convinces his teenage sons to help him and a buddy escape. The oldest son, James Spader, tries to tell the more impressionable younger ones it is a bad idea, but they are completely under the spell of Mitchum. On the lam in the Arizona desert, the two cons murder a family in cold blood for their car. The boys are torn between dedication to dad and the slow realization that he is a killer. Some good moments, but the made-for-tv format lacks the necessary grit to make this convincing.

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