Hide in Plain Sight

Hide in Plain Sight
Directed byJames Caan
Screenplay bySpencer Eastman
Based onHide in Plain Sight
1976 book
by Leslie Waller
Produced byRobert W. Christiansen
Rick Rosenberg
StarringJames Caan
Jill Eikenberry
Robert Viharo
Barbra Rae
Joe Grifasi
Kenneth McMillan
Josef Sommer
Danny Aiello
CinematographyPaul Lohmann
Edited byFredric Steinkamp
William Steinkamp
Music byLeonard Rosenman
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists (United States/Canada)
Cinema International Corporation (International)
Release date
  • April 21, 1980 (1980-04-21) (Portugal)
Running time
92 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6 million[2]
Box officeunder $2 million (North America),[2] $3,806,930[3]

Hide in Plain Sight is a 1980 American drama film directed by and starring James Caan with the story line based on an actual case from the files of New York attorney Salvatore R. Martoche, who represented Tom Leonhard, a real-life victim from Buffalo, New York who had sued to recover contact with his children, estranged by the culpability of the new husband and government, soon realizing his own past is coming back to get him.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Variety was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Mann, Roderick. (Nov 2, 1980). "MOVIES: FILM DIRECTING: FOR CAAN, IT'S NOT A FESTIVAL". Los Angeles Times. p. q31.
  3. ^ Hide in Plain Sight at Box Office Mojo