They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping (1993)
Actors:
Kevin Brief (actor),
John Dunbar (actor),
Travis Fine (actor),
Jonathan Hernandez (actor),
Tom Hodges (actor),
Richard LeComte (actor),
Karl Malden (actor),
Brendan McCurdy (actor),
Dick Mueller (actor),
Addison Myers (actor),
Richard Alan Nichols (actor),
Tim Ransom (actor),
Dick Solowicz (actor),
Darrel Wayne (actor),
Ken Boehr (actor),
Plot: Three young men decide to make easy money by mass kidnapping. After careful preparations, they hijack the school bus and take 26 children and the driver as hostages. However, the bravery and the wit of the old driver could spoil their plan for the perfect crime.
Keywords: based-on-book, based-on-true-story, bus, child-kidnapping, hijack, hijacked-bus, kidnapping, school-bus
Genres:
Crime,
Drama,
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Actors:
Donald Bernardi (actor),
Ramon Bieri (actor),
Larry Brandenburg (actor),
Jason Court (actor),
John Cusack (actor),
Steve Dahl (actor),
Troy Donahue (actor),
Tim Gamble (actor),
Gene Hartline (actor),
C. Thomas Howell (actor),
Fred Lerner (actor),
Tony Lincoln (actor),
Frank T. Panno (actor),
John Philbin (actor),
Bruno Alexander (actor),
Plot: Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is on of the drivers in the derby who's wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.
Keywords: arson, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, bondage, bulldozer, coming-of-age, country-name-in-title, demolition-derby, father-son-relationship, growing-up
Genres:
Drama,
Taglines: Where dreams have a funny way of coming true.
Quotes:
Ernie 'Slam' Webster: [Bob and Mike are carrying a very drunk Slam to the truck] [Slam talking drunk] I'm sorry everyone.::Bob Cody: There are 2 kinds of drunks, those that are sorry and those that soon will be.
Bonnie Clark: [Tim and Bonnie making love in the back seat of a Cadillac parked on the side of a stream] Oh Tim!::Tim Pearson: Oh Bonnie!::Tim Pearson: Are we moving?::Bonnie Clark: Everything's moving, the whole world is moving.::Tim Pearson: [Tim looks up to see the car is sinking into the stream] Bonnie, the whole car is moving!
Tim Pearson: [Tim is riding in the tow truck with Slam cause Slam is towing Tim's dad's Cadillac] Man, I feel so stupid.::Ernie 'Slam' Webster: Boy, you just discover the oldest sexual position in the book.::Tim Pearson: What?::Ernie 'Slam' Webster: The Foolish position.::Ernie 'Slam' Webster: [Slam pulls the tow truck to a bowling alley and says to Tim] You just got to remember, your brains are between your ears and not your legs.::Mickey: [Mickey, the bowling alley owner comes out of the alley and Talks to Slam, he also notices Tim with the mud on him] Slam, things are a little rough out at the speedrome tonight, huh?::Ernie 'Slam' Webster: My friend here had a problem out at County Line Bridge.::Mickey: [Mickey makes a joke and says to Tim] Out there baiting your hook, huh?, catch anything? [Mickey laughs]