Before the success of Liam Neeson’s Taken
series of films, which arrived theatrically beginning in 2008, there was
director Jack Shoder’s Beeper,
which covers similar ground.
Bayview Entertainment has tabbed Apr. 14 as the DVD
arrival date for this thriller about a kidnapping involving a widowed doctor,
played by Ed Quinn (Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation … as
Randy in the Two Broke Girls TV
series and as Hunter Franklin in The Oval
cable series), who has taken his son, Sam (Stefan Djordjevic), with him to
India.
There’s guilt since his wife died, a steady string
of nannies, which makes it pretty clear that he doesn’t spend enough time with
his kid. So the excuse of a conference
in a faraway land seems like the perfect opportunity to form new bonds with his
son … what could possibly go wrong.
In no time Sam is abducted — right in the middle of
the conference they are attending — and Dr. Avery suddenly finds himself with a
“beeper” that gives him instructions on what he has to do and where he has to
go to get Sam back, alive.
To complicate matters further, there is an
international drug dealer by the of Zolo (played by none other than Harvey
Keitel), who may, or may not, have something to with the abduction.
It matters little to Dr. Avery, who is literally a
fish out of water, in a foreign land, who can’t trust the local authorities to
help, so he does what any good father would do … he takes matters into his own
hands.
Things, however, get really complicated when the
only means of communication, the beeper, also goes missing … and suddenly Zolo
is his new “best friend!!”
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