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An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.


“Fate made them hostages. The media made them stars.”
An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.

Stephen Dorff
Cliff Spab

Reese Witherspoon
Wendy Pfister

Jake Busey
Morrow Streeter

Joey Lauren Adams
Monica Dice

Pamela Gidley
Janet Streeter

David Barry Gray
Scott Spab

Jack Noseworthy
Joe Dice

Richard Portnow
Gerald Parsley

Tobey Maguire
Al

Amber Benson
Babs Wyler
S.F.W. is a comedy, drama film released in 1995 exploring themes of based on novel or book, escape, media, loss of loved one, kidnapping, hostage. Directed by Jefery Levy, it stars Stephen Dorff, Reese Witherspoon, Jake Busey. An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
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