Robert Redford stars in this tense political thriller as a former militant whose past finally catches up with him. Now a successful upstate New York attorney, single father Jim Grant (Redford) was once a member of the Weather Underground, a radical left wing group in the 1970s. Wanted for a Michigan bank robbery and the murder of the bank's security guard, he's successfully managed to avoid detection by the FBI for over 30 years. But when Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon), another one of the group's former members, is arrested the resulting investigations by ambitious young reporter Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) into Jim's past forces him to go back on the run in a last ditch effort to clear his name.