CBS LATE MOVIE: Split Image (1982)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Split Image was on the CBS Late Movie on August 28, 1987 and February 10, 1988.

Danny Stetson (Michael O’Keefe) wants to be an Olympic athlete until he falls in love with Rebecca (Karen Allen) — and can you blame him — and joins her at Homeland, a religious community led by Neil Kirklander (Peter Fonda). His parents Kevin (Brian Dennehy) and Diana (Elizabeth Ashley) run out of ideas to get him back and hire bounty hunter Charles Pratt (James Woods).

Directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) and written by Scott Spencer (Endless Love), Robert Kaufman (Love at First Bite) and Robert Mark Kamen (The Karate Kid), this film is also known as Missing Pieces and Captured. Comedian Bill Engvall shows up in a small part, as does Peter Horton.

This has some great acting in it from Woods and O’Keefe as the deprogramming scenes are really rough. This was an early take on escaping cults and wasn’t noticed in theaters, but Kotcheff had Rambo show up two weeks later.

You can watch this on YouTube.

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