Three escaped convicts hijack a school bus and end up trapped at an abandoned slaughterhouse in a hostage situation they didn't plan. But their problems are just beginning. They discover that the children and their teacher (Marlee Matlin) are deaf-- and that the FBI has been called in to negotiate their freedom, headed up by agent John Potter (James Garner). When the convicts murder the school bus driver in cold blood to prove they mean business,...