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Overview
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Writer (WGA):
George Gallo (written by)
Release Date:
20 July 1988 (USA)
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Tagline:
A tough bounty hunter. A sensitive criminal. more
Plot:
An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail. full summary | add synopsis
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Bounty Hunter
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FBI
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Accountant
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Mafia
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Cross Country
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
Another 1 win
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(23 articles)
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Almost a winner
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Robert De Niro | ... | Jack Walsh |
 | Charles Grodin | ... | Jonathan Mardukas |
| Yaphet Kotto | ... | FBI Agent Alonzo Mosely |
 | John Ashton | ... | Marvin Dorfler |
 | Dennis Farina | ... | Jimmy Serrano |
 | Joe Pantoliano | ... | Eddie Moscone |
| Richard Foronjy | ... | Tony Darvo |
| Robert Miranda | ... | Joey |
| Jack Kehoe | ... | Jerry Geisler |
 | Wendy Phillips | ... | Gail |
| Danielle DuClos | ... | Denise Walsh |
 | Philip Baker Hall | ... | Sidney |
 | Tom McCleister | ... | Bill 'Red' Wood (as Thom McCleister) |
| Mary Gillis | ... | Bus Ticket Clerk |
 | John Toles-Bey | ... | Monroe Bouchet |
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126 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:12 |
Canada:14+ (Ontario) |
South Korea:18 |
Philippines:R-18 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 (video rating) |
USA:R |
West Germany:12 |
UK:15 (original rating) |
Spain:T
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The boxcar scene where Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) and John Mardukas (Charles Grodin) discuss whether or not they could ever be friends, was almost entirely improvised on set. As regards Grodin's famous "Have you ever had sex with a chicken?" line, he was told by director Martin Brest to come up with something that was guaranteed to make even Robert De Niro laugh.
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Continuity: A clock in the background LA airport shows the time as 12:30. Shortly after, we hear that it's 11:35.
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[first lines]
[Jack trying to pick door lock. He drops one of his picks. When he bends over to pick it up, a gun shot is fired through the door, right where his head had been previously]
Jack Walsh: Shit!
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[Jack trying to pick door lock. He drops one of his picks. When he bends over to pick it up, a gun shot is fired through the door, right where his head had been previously]
Jack Walsh: Shit!
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Featured in "I Love the 80's 3-D" (2005)
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To hell with the pretentiousness of a Shyamalan or the increasingly misplaced self-adulation of the Coens, 'Midnight Run' has no other purpose in life other than to use the movie as a medium of entertainment. . . and it does. Oh boy; it does.
Badly underrated on release and still unfairly under valued even now, 'Midnight Run' is actually class-act film making, the narrative impeccably engineered and the acting uniformly excellent throughout.
Faults? Definitely, not the least of 'em being the gratuitous use of profanity: the movie's tone is such that it just doesn't need the endless ear-grating use four letter words -- 'Midnight Run' isn't about reality or anything remotely approaching it, so the insistence on so much gutterspeak is a major error.
Set pieces though are gloriously handled, and the helicopter sequence is quite as good as anything in a Bond movie -- a genre that has managed quite well without spraying profanities everywhere because it knows, and we know, none of it's real.
9/10 then for 'Midnight Run', because as an exercise in how to develop a movie, to establish characters and plot trajectories, to bring 'em all together in a final wrap up and still leave space for a minor plot twist, it's of textbook quality.
* I happened to see this as a late-night TV re-run, the day after watching the Coen's 'The Man Who Wasn't There'. 'Midnight Run' is everything that the Coen's work is not: it isn't self reverential, it isn't seeking to be a cult, and above all, it knows how to tell a story with speed and with style. RECOMMENDED.