Overview
They Call Me Renegade is a 1987 road movie directed by E.B. Clucher and starring Terence Hill and his adoptive son Ross Hill.
Plot summary
"Renegade" Luke (Hill), a drifter and petty con artist, lives a free and easy life with no responsibility travelling around the Southwestern United States in his Jeep CJ Renegade with a chestnut colt named Joe Brown. The events take a sudden twist when his friend Moose (Norman Bowler), who has won a ranch in Arizona during a poker game, asks Luke to become the legal guardian of Moose's son Matt (Ross Hill) and to keep an eye on him and the property until either his son comes of age at 18, due to he's serving time in jail for a crime he claims he didn't commit. Both Luke and Matt are less than enthusiastic about the idea but eventually they reluctantly make their way to Arizona together. As they progress on their trip they experience an abnormal series of accidents, including crazy truckers in an articulated semi trying to drive them off the road, a biker-gang trying to hassle them on their way.
On entering the area where the property is situated, and asking for directions, he comes afoul of the local sheriff and his deputy, warning him to stay out of trouble which when Luke gets directions, calls someone called 'Mr Lawson'. They find the property soon after, a run-down house-on-the-lake, and meet the local Amish people who seem to be happy to welcome them to the neighborhood. Soon after a group of people come to visit trying to get him to sell the properly to a firm called Lawson Enterprises. Once Luke basically refuses, a comedy of the people then try to force the issue, until they leave after Matt messes around with their helicopter.
Some time after this, after coming back from town and the Amish homestead, as they near their home, Luke's horse, Joe Brown, refuses to get up which makes Luke very suspicious and as he nears, it dramatically explodes into a million pieces shocking Luke and Matt. Luke is now annoyed and goes to confront this 'Lawson' person at Lawson Enterprises.
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