Track Down

Track Down
Finnish DVD cover
Directed byJoe Chappelle
Written byDavid Newman
Leslie Newman
John Danza
Howard A. Rodman
Based on
Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw—By the Man Who Did It
by
Produced byJohn Thompson
Brad Weston
StarringSkeet Ulrich
Russell Wong
Angela Featherstone
Donal Logue
Christopher McDonald
Master P
Tom Berenger
CinematographyDermott Downs
Edited byJoe Rabig
Music byChris Holmes
James Kole
Production
company
Distributed byDimension Films
Release dates
  • March 15, 2000 (2000-03-15)
(Finland)
  • September 24, 2004 (2004-09-24)
(USA)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Track Down (also known as Takedown outside the United States) is a 2000 American crime thriller film based on the non-fiction book Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw—By the Man Who Did It by Tsutomu Shimomura and John Markoff, about the manhunt for computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. It is directed by Joe Chappelle, with a screenplay by Howard A. Rodman, John Danza, and David & Leslie Newman. The film stars Skeet Ulrich as Mitnick and Russell Wong as Shimomura, with Angela Featherstone, Donal Logue, Christopher McDonald, Master P, and Tom Berenger.

Upon release, the film and its source material came under controversy due to inaccuracies and falsehoods alleged by Mitnick against Shimomura and the screenwriters. The film's producers faced a lawsuit from author Jonathan Littman, who alleged that portions of the film's screenplay were taken from his book The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick. As such, the film was not released in the United States until September 24, 2004, where it was released direct-to-video by Dimension Films.