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- 1988
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 6 m
- 1988
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 6 m
Summary Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (De Niro) is offered $100,000 from a bail bondsman to capture fugitive accountant Jonathan "the Duke" Mardukas (Grodin) and bring him to Los Angeles in time for his trial date. Walsh must avoid a rival bounty hunter, the FBI, and the mob to earn his payday.
Directed By: Martin Brest
Written By: George Gallo
- 1988
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 6 m
- 1988
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 6 m
Midnight Run
78
8.6
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Summary Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (De Niro) is offered $100,000 from a bail bondsman to capture fugitive accountant Jonathan "the Duke" Mardukas (Grodin) and bring him to Los Angeles in time for his trial date. Walsh must avoid a rival bounty hunter, the FBI, and the mob to earn his payday.
Directed By: Martin Brest
Written By: George Gallo
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
78
82% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
18% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
78
82% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
18% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Midnight Run has thrills, excellent performances, touching moments, slick plotting, lively dialogue, plenty of laughs, beautiful locations and finely detailed direction. It's an across-the-board success, the best new movie I've seen in years. [20 July 1988]
It’s not the sum of its parts, so much as it is the way De Niro and Grodin make almost every one of those parts glisten.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 163 User Ratings
8.6
87% Positive
142 Ratings
142 Ratings
9% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
4% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 163 User Ratings
8.6
87% Positive
142 Ratings
142 Ratings
9% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
4% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
A masterpiece of character interactions.
The writing writing, pacing, and performances are simply incredible.
A truly timeless classic and definitively one of the best movies of all time.
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Midnight Run is such a fun movie, De Niro and Grodin chemistry is awesome and a fantastic original music by Danny Elfman, Midnight Run is just so much fun yet funny at the same time.
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The virtue of Midnight Run is not that it does anything new; the virtue is that it does everything old so well.
Miraculously, De Niro and Grodin turn this sow's ear into a plausible vehicle for a buddy movie, and thanks to both of them, this movie springs to life.
There isn't a single performance in Midnight Run that doesn't have a pulse, that doesn't show the actors at their best or near-best, especially De Niro. [20 July 1988]
Director Martin Brest has allowed the actors to improvise, and their resulting interaction is more realistic, funny, and surprising than that of any buddy film released in the last several years.
Midnight Run is two films. One is a succession of bright, razor-edge, nutty dialogues between two men. The other is the plot that keeps them together, which is stale and full of boring violent-comic action. [29 Aug 1988]
One helluva buddy movie. The chemistry between De Niro and Grodin is wonderful.
The writing is superb, the dialogue between the two leads is stellar and is a such delight to listen to. Respect to George Gallo.
Most of the side characters in this are just as funny to watch as the leading pair, due in no small part to the amazing casting of those characters.
The movie transitions smoothly from road trip-esque scenes where Jack is escorting"The Duke" back to L.A. to collect the bounty on his head to scenes where the duo have to outrun gangsters and the FBI.
I love, love, LOVE this movie. Midnight Run is (this is cliche, but...) a joy from start to finish.
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Midnight Run is a classic comedy from the director of Scent Of A Woman. Every actor is gold in this movie
and the action scenes are great before CGI was invented.
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Midnight is one of the most fun, entertaining, hilarious road comedies I've seen in a while, if not ever. The chemistry between de Niro and Grodin is natural and not forced, and the dialogue is fresh and exciting, not to mention witty. The movie glides with ease from scene to scene, plot point to plot point, and you want it to keep going even after the movie ends. One of De Niro's best performances.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
