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DVD Midnight Run
Director Martin Brest rocketed to the top of Hollywood's A list with the blockbuster success of Beverly Hills Cop, and this 1988 follow-up is even better. Midnight Run is a genuine rarity--an action comedy that's dramatically satisfying--thanks to a sharp script by George Gallo, the superb teaming of Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, and Brest's consummate skill in combining suspense and humor with well-developed characters. De Niro plays a maverick bounty hunter whose latest assignment is Grodin, an accountant accused of embezzling from the Mob. De Niro thinks he's in for an easy job, transporting Grodin (who's afraid to fly) from New York to Los Angeles, but soon discovers that both the FBI and the Mafia are hot on Grodin's trail. Equal parts road trip, action thriller, and a quirky character study, Midnight Run moves at a breakneck pace but still gives De Niro and Grodin time to create rich, memorable performances as two men who seem to be opposites, but gradually develop mutual respect and admiration. Mainstream entertainment at its best. --Jeff Shannon
"Run" achieves ideal balance between comedy and action, creating pure, adrenalized entertainment. DeNiro and Grodin project surprisingly strong chemistry as polar opposites thrown together by fate. Their inspired interaction elevates the movie well above the standard "buddy" picture. Joe Pantoliano stands out as Jack's nervous boss. Fast moving, cross-country fun.
Nearly the last GOOD movie De Niro ever made
Sounds blasphemous when you consider we're talking about the man who's still considered the best actor in America. But the truth is that in recent years Robert De Niro has appeared in dozens of lousy movies he must be doing to cash in on his credibility. Maybe he has his eye on a happy retirement paved with Hollywood dollars. If so, fine, more power to him, but a shame he has squandered his talents so profligately. MIDNIGHT RUN from way back in 1988 was nearly the last time I can remember him playing well in a good picture. He was on a sort of streak, having just come off of BRAZIL, THE MISSION, THE UNTOUCHABLES and ANGEL HEART-not all of them classics, but movies with a certain ambition and striving for something far beyond MEET THE PARENTS. After MIDNIGHT RUN there would be STANLEY & IRIS and GOODFELLAS, and then the catastrophic drop off into near-total mediocrity. Although to be fair HEAT, JACKIE BROWN and RONIN have their partisans.
And talk about drop off points, what happened to Charles Grodin? Grodin was always going to be harder to cast than De Niro, that's not his fault, but in MIDNIGHT RUN he matches De Niro so perfectly, note for note, scene for scene, that it's exhilarating to watch him. He does the kind of thing someone like John Lithgow became famous for, only he does it with the stagy hamminess Lithgow does it with. And yet Grodin hasn't made a movie in ten years or more, and that was probably better than some of the schlock he was doing, the "Beethoven" movies for example, or the execrable I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER. Or how about the inexcusable "The Muppets Go To Walt Disney World"? Maybe there's a graylist going on right now where real talent is given the silent squelch. Seems like Grodin can't even get a part in MEET THE PARENTS, really much more his kind of movie than De Niro's.
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This 1979 comedy is absolutely indispensable for fans of Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, or Andrew Bergman, who wrote the film's screenplay and went on to direct The Freshman and Honeymoon in Vegas. (Let's forgive him for Striptease.) Arkin is extraordinarily funny as a dentist who quickly grows skeptical about the wild claims of his daughter's future father-in-law (Peter Falk) that he is a CIA agent. When he is drawn into a bizarre adventure in a banana republic, however, he takes a different view. Arthur Hiller (Love Story) provides serviceable direction, but the real draw here is the perfect chemistry between the two leads and Bergman's weirdly comic mind. Watch for the look on Arkin's face when Falk's character tells a story about giant tse-tse flies. --Tom... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Peter Falk - Alan Arkin Director(s): Arthur Hiller DVD Release Date: Released the 13 May 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This is just an outstanding movie that unfortunately flopped at the box office. This film was directed by Joe Pytka, who is extremely succesful in T.V . commercials, but less so in movies. This film is funny, touching, has and has a great soundtrack. Richard Dreyfuss plays the loser who against all odds has a great day at the track. It also is love story, with Terri Garr as his wife and Jennifer Tilly in her prime as a knockout possible extra-curricular interest. An over the top hilarious supporting role by David Johansen and a really funny small part by Robbie Coltrane as a cashier just add to the fun. Especially enjoyable for anyone who has ever gambled. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Richard Dreyfuss - Teri Garr Director(s): Joe Pytka DVD Release Date: Released the 18 September 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This moody 1986 buddy picture and police drama represented a change of pace for both stars. Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines play two Chicago police detectives who, feeling gun-shy about the inherent danger of their jobs, contemplate retirement in Florida. They just can't shake the allure of their work, however, particularly when their pursuit of a notorious drug dealer (Jimmy Smits) turns personal and deadly. While there are more than enough light moments generated by the easy and convincing rapport between Crystal and Hines, director Peter Hyams (The Star Chamber, 2010) succeeds in straddling the two disparate moods to create a taut and engaging action picture. --Robert LaneMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Gregory Hines - Billy Crystal Director(s): Peter Hyams DVD Release Date: Released the 02 October 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In this crowd-pleasing 1983 comedy of high finance about a homeless con artist who becomes a Wall Street robber baron, Eddie Murphy consolidated the success of his startling debut in the previous year's 48 Hours and polished his slick-winner persona. The turnabout begins with an argument between super-rich siblings, played by Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche: Are captains of industry, they wonder, born or made? To settle the issue, the meanies construct a cruel experiment in social Darwinism. Preppie commodities trader Dan Aykroyd (perfectly cast) is stripped of all his worldly goods and expelled from the firm, and Murphy's smelly derelict is appointed to take his place, graduating to tailored suits and a world-class harem in record time. Eventually the two men team up to teach the... More Info about this DVD Director(s): John Landis DVD Release Date: Released the 24 September 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Martin Scorsese's brutal black-and-white biography of self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta was chosen as the best film of the 1980s in a major critics' poll at the end of the decade, and it's a knockout piece of filmmaking. Robert De Niro plays LaMotta (famously putting on 50 pounds for the later scenes), a man tormented by demons he doesn't understand and prone to uncontrollably violent temper tantrums and fits of irrational jealousy. He marries a striking young blond (Cathy Moriarty), his sexual ideal, and then terrorizes her with never-ending accusations of infidelity. Jake is as frightening as he is pathetic, unable to control or comprehend the baser instincts that periodically, and without warning, turn him into the rampaging beast of the title. But as Roman Catholic Scorsese sees... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert De Niro - Cathy Moriarty - Joe Pesci Director(s): Martin Scorsese DVD Release Date: Released the 08 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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