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Plot

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.
MPAA Rating:
R
Genre(s):
Comedy
Run Time:
125min.
Theatrical Release Date:
07/20/1988
DVD Release Date:
09/02/1998
Distributor(s):
Universal
Director(s):
Martin Brest
Starring:
Robert De Niro , Charles Grodin , Yaphet Kotto , John Ashton , Dennis Farina
Themes:
Class Differences,Cons and Scams,Bounty Hunters
Tone:
Talky,Warm,Light,Humorous
Keywords:
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation),accounting,airplane,bounty-hunter,charity,con/scam,embezzlement,ex-policeman,fugitive,hidden,mob-boss,on-the-road,on-the-run
Country of Origin:
USA (07-20-1988)
Language:
English