Film

Midnight Run 1988

Directed by Martin Brest

  • Comedy, Crime, Thriller
  • 126 min
  • R

This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

ComedyCrimeThrillercrooked lawyerroad tripbuddybuddy comedybail jumpermafia accountantstretch limousinemanhattan, new york citysouthwestern u.s.bus stationpolice surveillance

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Classical in form, resolved, effortless and comic.

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  • resolvedopen-ended
  • effortlessdemanding
  • gravecomic
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