Midnight Run [Collector's Edition] [Blu-ray]

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/23/2016
UPC:	0826663164794
Original Release:	1988
Rating:	R
Source:	Shout Factory
Language:	English
Time:	2:06:00
Sales rank:	21,036

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Robert De Niro	Actor
Charles Grodin	Actor
Dennis Farina	Actor
Yaphet Kotto	Actor
John Ashton	Marvin Dorfler
Joe Pantoliano	Eddie Moscone
Richard Foronjy	Tony Darvo
Robert Miranda	Joey
Jack Kehoe	Jerry Geisler
Wendy Phillips	Gail
Danielle DuClos	Denise
Philip Baker Hall	Sidney
Thom McCleister	Red Wood,Actor
Mary Gillis	Bus Ticket Clerk
John Toles-Bey	Monroe Bouchet
Thomas J. Hageboeck	Sgt. Gooch
Stanley White	Stanley
Scott McAfee	Boy on Plane
Linda Margules	Car Rental Clerk
Lois Smith	Mrs. Nelson
Fran Brill	Dana Mardukas
Lou Felder	Airline Pilot
Michael Gainsborough	FBI Surveillance Agent,Actor
Sam Sanders	Train Porter
Frank Pesce	Carmine
Paul Joseph McKenna	Ohio Policeman
Matt Jennings	Jason
Rosemarie Murphy	Coffee Shop Waitress
Jack N. Young	Amarillo Desk Sergeant
Richard Gonzalez	Bar Cashier
Bill Fritz	Bar Customer
Pete Jensen	Flagstaff Police Captain
Andy Charnoki	Flagstaff Sheriff
Tracey Walter	Diner Counter Man
Varnoy Lee	Airport Porter
Bob Maroff	LA Taxi Driver
Tom Irwin	FBI Agent Perry
Jimmy Ray Weeks	FBI Agent Tuttle
John Hammil	Actor
Cameron Milzer	Actor
Sonia M. Roberts	Actor
Robert Coleman	Actor
William Robbins	Actor,Actor
Wilfred Netsosie	Actor
Dale Beard Jr.	Actor
Thomas Nez	Actor
Robert Vento	Actor
Joe 'Tippy' Zeoli	Actor
Jim Portese	Actor
Armando Muniz	Actor
Dan York	Actor
Rowdy Burdick	Actor
Michael Hawkins	FBI Surveillance Agent #1
Danny Elfman	Composer

Technical Credits

George Gallo

Martin Brest	Director,Producer
George Gallo	Screenwriter
Roy Arbogast	Special Effects
William S. Gilmore	Executive Producer,Producer
Glenn H. Randall Jr.	Stunts
Rick Alexander	Sound Effects
James Bolt	Sound Effects
Pete Antico	Stunts
Greg Agalsoff	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

What might have been a run-of-the-mill action/buddy flick becomes a wildly entertaining offbeat comedy thanks to wonderful performances by Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. In a film that is essentially one long chase, BEVERLY HILLS COP director Martin Brest provides plenty of suspenseful and spectacular action sequences involving planes, helicopters, trains, and automobiles. But it's the chemistry between odd couple DeNiro, playing a tough ex-cop turned bounty hunter, and Grodin, a fussy accountant who embezzled millions from the mob, that makes this movie shine. As DeNiro attempts, for a hefty fee, to deliver Grodin from New York to L.A., dodging both the bloodthirsty mob and the FBI, he discovers that the "airplane-phobic" accountant is more of a handful than he bargained for; he and Grodin also discover that they have much more in common than they could ever have imagined. The result is an action movie that transcends its genre, becoming a funny and affecting story about an unlikely friendship.

Barnes & Noble - Kryssa Schemmerling

A delightful fusion of a 1980s buddy picture and a wacky Odd Couple-style comedy, Midnight Run's mixture of action and comedy probably most resembles Arthur Hiller's 1979 road comedy The In-Laws. The success of both films depends on the interplay and chemistry between the two bickering leads, in this instance, Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. Grodin had long been a comic actor of some acclaim (Heaven Can Wait), but this was De Niro's first mainstream comedy, and he acquitted himself admirably as the irascible bounty hunter sent to pick up Grodin's white-collar embezzler. Working from a clever script by George Gallo, director Martin Brest captures the precise levels of comedy and action that made his prior film, Beverly Hills Cop, such a hit. In Midnight Run, however, Brest allows complex characters to emerge from the set-up, and the film is all the better for the results. De Niro would continue to explore his comic side, to generally positive results, in films such as We're No Angels, Mad Dog and Glory, Wag the Dog, and Analyze This.

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