Shoot to Kill (known outside North America as
Deadly Pursuit) is a 1988 American
buddy cop action thriller film[3] directed by
Roger Spottiswoode and starring
Sidney Poitier (in his first role in eleven years),
Tom Berenger,
Clancy Brown,
Andrew Robinson, and
Kirstie Alley. The film follows an
FBI agent pursuing a homicidal
extortionist; when the extortionist kidnaps a
fishing guide in the
Pacific Northwest, the agent teams up with her partner, a local
wilderness guide, to rescue her.