by Hal Erickson
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.
characteristics
keywords
on-the-road
on-the-run
embezzlement
bounty-hunter
airplane
mob-boss
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
accounting
ex-policeman
con/scam
hidden
charity
fugitive
attributes
High Artistic Quality
High Production Values
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