Paul Benjamin

Lifer Frank Morris plans his unauthorized departure from Alcatraz in this thriller based on the penitentiary's only successful jailbreak.

Following the death of his only friend, a lonely, short-statured man retreats to a remote train depot to find solitude but instead unexpectantly befriends an artist grieving over the loss of her son and a carefree hot dog vendor.

An American POW (Richard Pryor) is finally shipped back home and everything goes wrong for him. His mom is in a nursing home; his wife has a lover; and they've lost all his savings. So begins his desperate - and funny - descent into a world of crime.