丹尼尔平时忙于工作,虽然他深爱他的小孩,但亲子间仍有些疏离,在一个赶赴提案的早晨,因为太太不舒服,他临危受命接送小孩及其他邻居一群烦人的小鬼上学,原本就快来不及的他,竟遇上一位乌龙抢匪法兰克林,法兰克林其实是个善良的人,在误打误撞下他抢了劫,并以丹尼尔车上一群人为人质,但亲切的他却异常地和孩子们打成一片,十分快乐的相处,甚至警方在后一路追赶时,孩子们都极力帮他脱困。丹尼尔百般不解,他们摆脱了警方,法兰克林请孩子们到他的游乐园,没想到却遇到真正的抢匪,幸好最后仍被大家制服,但丹尼尔的小孩安德鲁却在此发生危险,丹尼尔不顾一切,甚至牺牲重要的提案资料,亲自救出了安德鲁,后来他们赶去提案现场,在大家的努力下通过了老板的审核,而丹尼尔因这次事件,拉近了和孩子的距离,也慢慢了解亲情甚于工作的道理。
Director Arthur Hiller (Love Story, Silver Streak), working from screenwriter Edward Anhalt's (Becket) adaptation, transforms actor-playwright Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth into a film the Los Angeles Times dubbed, "daring, outrageous, utterly provocative, endlessly ambiguous and strikingly effective."
Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell...
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Jimmy Dworski is a criminal serving the last 48 hours of a jail sentence. He wins a couple of baseball tickets by calling a radio quiz show. With help of other inmates, he escapes to go watch the game. When by chance he finds the Filofax of executive Spencer Barns who loses it while traveling on a business weekend. Jimmy finds cash, credit cards and the key to a big mansion. He...