Midnight Run Synopsis & Movie Info

Synopsis

Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter offered $100,000 to bring in embezzler Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin). Handcuffed to the wimpy Mardukas, Walsh assumes that the extradition trip from New York to Los Angeles will be an uneventful one. But the prisoner hasn't told Walsh the whole story: the embezzler owes $15 million to a mobster (Dennis Farina), and he's been targeted for assassination. It's a toss-up as to what is the most entertaining aspect of Midnight Run: the slam-bang action and chase sequences or the verbal byplay between DeNiro and Grodin. - Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Movie Info

Starring:
Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina
Theatrical Release Date:
07/20/1988
DVD Release Date:
09/02/1998
Rating:
Not Yet Rated
Run Time:
125 min.
Distributor(s):
Universal
Production Co.:
City Lights
Director(s):
Martin Brest
Genre(s):
Comedy, Action and Adventure
Themes:
Bounty Hunters, Cons and Scams, Class Differences
Tone:
Warm, Light, Talky, Witty, Humorous
Keywords:
hidden, charity, airplane, con/scam, fugitive, mob-boss, accounting, on-the-run, on-the-road, embezzlement, ex-policeman, bounty-hunter, FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Country of Origin:
USA
Language:
English
Status:
DVD

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