''Into the Homeland'' is a 1987

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that aired on HBO on December 26, 1987, directed by

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and starring

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, Paul LeMat, Emily Longstreth and

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. The screenplay was written by Anna Hamilton Phelan. In 1984, Jack Swallow (Boothe) is a

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detective who was unable to prevent a child's death during a drug raid. He leaves both the

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and his family to become a

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bum and surf

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owner of sorts in

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. Three years later, his daughter turns up missing. He tracks her to her boyfriend (Howell) in rural

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, whose father turns out to be the leader of a violent

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cult that kidnapped his daughter.

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