| Director | Buzz Kulik |
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Andy Paxton is an arrogant, obnoxious pop idol who is about to be divorced by his wife Lissa. He constantly abuses his staff, including his bodyguard, ex-cop Hub, his manager Vecchio, and his valet, Bake.
Andy begins an engagement at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles. After his opening performance, Andy, his entourage, and his wife stop at home so Lissa can check on infant son Bobby before they all go to dinner. After Lissa runs into the house they hear her screaming hysterically. Instead of Bobby, she has found a doll and a note in his bed and the nurse murdered. The men run into the house to discover that the baby was kidnapped. Despite instructions to the contrary, they call the police. Andy tears the codeword "canary" from the note and withholds it from detective Lt. Bonner but is later convinced to reveal it. A second message arrives demanding $200,000 ransom, which Andy manages to raise. He delivers the money to an isolated beach but nobody comes to meet him. Hub takes Andy to a lonely inn and tortures a woman into giving them the address of a man who might have been in touch with the kidnappers. They find the man dead.
After Bake is found murdered, Andy receives further instructions by telephone from the kidnapper, and realizes that Hub is one of the few people who know their unlisted number. Andy and Lissa return to the inn and rescue their baby, and Andy shoots the mentally deranged Hub as police cars surround the inn.