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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1992 DVD Release: 07/01/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: Italian Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 46 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Drama, Escape Film, Childhood Drama

Originally titled La Corsa Dell'Innocente, this Italian drama focuses on that country's ongoing wave of kidnappings. The early scenes focus on a large, outwardly normal Italian family who happen to make their living by abducting wealthy children and holding them for ransom. When the family is wiped out by a rival gang, only 10-year-old Vito (Manuel Coalo) survives. Any other child would go to the police at this point, but Vito has been raised never to trust the police -- or anyone else, for that matter. There is an abundance of dramatic irony in store for the audience when the fleeing Vito is sheltered by the affluent Rienzi family, whose own child has recently been kidnapped. It soon becomes clear that Vito is simply not cut from his family's criminal cloth, and the decisions he makes show a clear sense of ethics and a determination to set right the vicious actions of his family. This marvelously multitextured film represented the directorial debut of Carlo Carlei. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Manuel Colao - Vito
Federico Pacifici - Scarface
Nicola di Pinto - Questor
Francesca Neri - Marta Rienzi
Jacques Perrin - Davide Rienzi

Carlo Carlei's thriller The Flight of the Innocentcomes to DVD from MGM Home Entertainment with an anamorphic widescreen transfer. Dolby Digital mono soundtrack is available in Italian with subtitles in English, French, and Spanish. Special features are limited to the original theatrical trailer. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide