NOWHERE TO HIDE

US, 1987, 91 minutes, Colour.
Amy Madigan, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Michael Ironside.
Directed by Mario Azzopardi.

An action-thriller with a military conspiracy. The star is Amy Madigan, offering a leading lady the opportunity to perform well in a pursuit and vengeance thriller. She plays a military wife, well trained in war games, whose husband is murdered because he was investigating the manufacture of forty helicopters. Those investigating the murder are also killed - and she has to take refuge with a friend of her husband's in the mountains. Still pursued, she is able to break free and confront the guilty General. David Hugh Kelly is the husband, Michael Ironside, more sympathetic than usual, is the friend and John Colicos is the general. The material is familiar, but it is done with some flair and set amid beautiful mountain scenery.

1. Interesting and entertaining thrilled? Pursuit and vengeance? Military conspiracy?

2. The action sequences and the stunt work? The action at editing? The base locations and the mountains? Musical score?

3. The title, Barbara and her son, their desperation, confrontation?

4. Barbara, her relationship with her husband? Her son? Home life? The murder and her bewilderment? Protection of her son? Her being pursued by killers? Trying to get
help from the General and realising that he was part of the conspiracy? The murder of her husband's friend, of the investigating journalist? Her going into the mountains, the support of Ben, her son taking the electronic device in his pocket, her being pursued in the mountains, the confrontation and massacre? Her return, the car chases, going to see her husband’s friends, confronting the General - and trapping him into giving the information? Her pursuit of the General in the helicopter? Strong heroine?

5. Rob, military games, manoeuvres, the clashes of the helicopter? His background in Vietnam? His friends? His integrity, the investigation, discovery of the truth, giving the part to his son before he was murdered, his death? The silence of his friends? Official orders?

6. The general comments, smooth talk, betrayal, pursuit of Barbara, the final confrontation, the car chase and his death?

7. Rob's friend, part of the conspiracy, trying to warn Barbara, often to give the information to the journalist? His being run off the road? The journalist, his aggression in the bar? Helping Barbara, being shot in the cemetery?

8. Ben, the background of Vietnam, the death of his wife and child from friendly fire, talking with Rob? Helping Barbara and her son, the attack, his death?

9. The boy, love for his parents, playing with his father, the trauma of his father's murder, in shock, wandering, taking the electronic device? Ben helping him?

10. The members of the force, the flights, camaraderie, their not going to the funeral, helping in the final confrontation?