An FBI agent (Dennis Quaid) tracks a serial killer.

SEX/NUDITY 5 - Sexual innuendo. Many nude centerfolds and pictures are seen (full frontal female nudity) in many scenes.

VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A woman is stabbed leaving a pool of blood on the floor. A couple of bloody corpses are found and a murder scene with blood on the walls. A barroom brawl with hitting, punching and kneeing, as well as threatening with knives and guns. A man performs an emergency operation. Photos of bloody murder victims. A flashback of a man being shot (with a bloody face). A person holds a knife to a man's throat and is then shot in the leg. A man's throat is cut, another man's leg is cut, and a man is impaled on a tree branch (there's blood on each victim). Someone is stabbed and killed off screen. A man is hit with a shovel. Chases and people nearly fall off cliffs in cars and moving trains. A train nearly hits a man in a car.

LANGUAGE 6 - A couple of F-words, some scatological references, a few anatomical references, many mild obscenities.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Serial killers, hitchhiking, kidnapping, law enforcement.

MESSAGE - Perseverance can pay off.