I Am DB Cooper (7/10)
by Tony Medley
100 Minutes.
NR.
DB Cooper is one of the most famous fugitives in
history. On November 24, 1971, a man who bought a ticker on a Northwest
Orient flight from Oregon to Seattle. During the flight he told a
stewardess that he had a bomb and wanted $200,000. The plane landed, off
loaded all the passengers and the money was brought on board, and took
off again.
Cooper made everyone leave the cabin and sometime
later bailed out over the Oregon outback and disappeared.
Back in the day he became famous. In fact, there
was a bar in Los Angeles called DB Cooper that existed for years in West
LA.
This is hybrid fictional/documentary that has two
bounty hunters who find an old man, Rodney Bonnifield, who claims to be
DB Cooper.
Told in flashbacks, the young Rodney (Ryan Cory, in
an impressive performance) is shown as a troubled man, and it goes into
detail about his life. But that is told in flashbacks.
In present day a real live man, named Rodney
Bonnifield, tells the story of the hijack in minute detail. The question
is, of course, is he really DB Cooper? For people old enough to have
lived through the story, that dominated the headlines for several weeks,
if not months, it’s an interesting tale.
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