Ulu Grosbard

Dustin Hoffman is paroled criminal Max (Dustin Hoffman) attempting to go straight, get a job and live by the rules. But he finds himself on the wrong side of a cruel parole officer (M. Emmet Walsh) and back in trouble with the law...

A family is torn apart when the 3-year-old son is kidnapped. Nine years later he turns up, living in the town where the family has just relocated.