TRIPFALL
Starring
ERIC ROBERTS
JOHN RITTER
RACHEL HUNTER
MICHAEL RAYNOR
KATY BOYER
Tom Williams (John Ritter) is a rising
executive at Dexel Industries in the midwest. After devoting all his
energies to climbing the corporate ladder he decides to devote his time
to his family. He takes his wife and children on a long-awaited
vacation to sunny California. Tom and his beautiful wife Gina (Rachel
Hunter) also need to spend some time on their relationship.
Mr Eddie (Eric Roberts) is the last in a
long line of white trash criminals lured to the west coast by the
promise of easy marks. He's just getting out of prison and eager to
work on his third strike. He joins up with two of his old crime
partners: Franklin (Michael Raynor), an ex-hitman, and Lonnie (Katy
Boyer),he first girl on her block to use roofies on traveling salesmen.
To get back in the swing of things Eddie
leads the trio on a viscous home invasion robbery not far from where
Tom and his family are vacationing. Things get out of control and Eddie
happily orders the killing of his victims - a family much like the
Williams.
Not satisfied with their meager haul,
Eddie turns his sights on Tom and his family. Eddie and Franklin
ingratiate themselves to wary Tom, taking him to a strip bar where they
try to get him to sit still for a lap dance. Meanwhile Lonnie takes
Gina shopping to separate her from Tom.
With their guard down, Tom and his
family are suddenly kidnapped by Eddie and his gang. Eddie offers to
let the family go for a price -Tom must pay him $1.2 million,
everything he has, Tom agrees.
But getting hold of $1.2 million is
easier said than done. Tom must have the money wired in from
out-of-state while Lonnie holds his family hostage. But it soon becomes
clear that the sadistic Mr. Eddie has no intentions of turning the
Williams family loose. As much as Mr. Eddie wants the money, killing is
the icing on the cake for him.
The bank transfer will take one day,
giving Tom a window of opportunity to act. But years in business
college and soft living in the suburbs haven't prepared Tom for this.
Unable to ask for help, with Mr. Eddie and Franklin constantly at his
side, Tom must summon up every ounce of moral and physical courage to
save his family from certain death.
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