Jack Walsh (<a href=">Robert De Niro) is a former cop from Chicago, who was framed by criminal Jimmy Serrano (<a href=">Dennis Farina) whom he was investigating and about to arrest. He is now a bounty hunter based in Los Angeles. The bail bondsman (<a href=">Joe Pantoliano) wants him to find Jonathan &quot;The Duke&quot; Mardukas (<a href=">Charles Grodin) who was an accountant working for Serrano and stole millions of dollars from him and gave it away to charity. The bail bondsman was the one who bailed him out,and now unless he can get him back in L.A. in the next 5 days, he will forfeit the bond and be placed out of business. So he sends Jack to get him, which is Midnight Run or easy job in the bail bond business. Except for the fact that the man The Duke stole the money from, wants to get him, and he is also the same man who framed Jack. And also the FBI wants to get Mardukas so that they can use him to get his boss, so they warn Walsh not to get in their way. But Walsh nevertheless finds The Duke and is about bring him back but when The Duke claims that he has difficulty with flying the airline throws them out of the plane, so they have to go back on the road. When Walsh&#39;s boss learns that he didn&#39;t arrive when he was suppose to, he sends another bounty hunter, Marvin Dorfler (<a href=">John Ashton), who is Jack&#39;s greatest adversary, to get The Duke. Marvin cancels Walsh&#39;s card, they don&#39;t have enough funds to make it all the way, so they have to scrape everything they have. And it doesn&#39;t help that The Duke is doing everything he can to escape because he says that Serrano can get him, even in jail.
Jack Walsh (<a href=">Robert De Niro) is a tough bounty hunter has to deliver Jonathan &quot;The Duke&quot; Mardukas (<a href=">Charles Grodin), who embezzled $15 million from the Mob, but the FBI is after The Duke to testify - the Mob is after him for revenge - and Walsh is after him to just shut up. Will they survive each other and all the other pursuers to a happy ending?
After making unforgettable Beverly Hills cop, Martin Brest hit the jackpot again.<br/><br/>This time with De Niro and Grodin. Since it&#39;s hard to write a script, fully packed with laughs, just right amount of action sequences, good chemistry between main figures and some touchy moments (here i&#39;m thinking the scenes, where De Niro&#39;s daughter wanted to give him his money and the very end of the movie) much of the credit goes to George Gallo.<br/><br/>I won&#39;t mention the plot, since many critics before me have already done that. Just picture the 80&#39;s, &quot;budy-action&quot; story and De Niro at his best. Oh yeah, and a lot of &quot;F&quot; words. <br/><br/>Someone may ask, why did I rate this movie so high. Well, it&#39;s no &quot;Oscar material&quot;, but every time I watched it, it made me feel good. And there are few movies on the market, that you can watch more than once, without feeling sleepy. Thanks to the pace, packed with all above mentioned stuff (comedy, action, twists).<br/><br/>Too bad, they don&#39;t made today movies like that.
Robert DeNiro is on my short list of all-time great actors, with a number of memorable performances in great films spanning 40 years in the business. Midnight Run represents one of his more underrated efforts, a thoroughly enjoyable comedy drama which also boasts a fine supporting cast. DeNiro plays Jack Walsh, an ex-cop who now works as a bounty hunter. He is hired by a sleazy bail bondsman (Joe Pantoliano) to bring in Jonathan &quot;The Duke&quot; Mardukas (Charles Grodin) within 5 days. Mardukas, who has embezzled millions of dollars from gangster Jimmy Serrano (Dennis Farina) is a talkative, finicky pain in the ass who frustrates Walsh, questioning him at every turn and complicating his task. DeNiro overcomes countless obstacles while trying to get his quarry to Los Angeles on time for the payoff while being pursued by mobsters, local law enforcement, rival bounty hunter Marvin Dorfler (John Ashton) and Federal Marshal Mosley (the always enjoyable Yaphet Kotto), all doggedly determined to bring in The Duke themselves.<br/><br/>DeNiro gives his usual entertaining performance, but Grodin steals the show as the fussbudget Mardukas, and the joy of the movie lies in the interplay between the two. On the run and seemingly in conflict at every turn, the duo eventually develop an understanding of one another, and DeNiro is forced to take stock of himself while being hounded by Grodin&#39;s bothersome personal inquiries. We find out that DeNiro&#39;s character is an honorable guy down deep- doomed to his current profession for refusing to join his entire police squad who was on the take from the very gangster pursuing The Duke. And Grodin is shown as a person that while not without fault, is a decent guy whose honest accounting business was stained by mobsters. This sets up the inevitable meeting of all parties involved in the final part of the movie.<br/><br/>Midnight Run is entertaining from beginning to end and provides just the right balance between comedy and drama. Highly recommended film.
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]
A &quot;midnight run&quot; is originally a slang term for a quick, late-night shopping trip to the corner store for beer, cigarettes or snacks. In bounty hunter slang, a midnight run is an easy job. The phrase has been used from time to time on the TV show <a href="/title/tt0424627/">Dog the Bounty Hunter (2003)</a>. In the movie, bond agent Moscone (<a href="/name/nm0001592/">Joe Pantoliano</a>) promises Walsh (<a href="/name/nm0000134/">Robert De Niro</a>) that his assignment will be an easy job, ie a &quot;midnight run&quot;. In addition, to fulfill the contract, the fugitive has to be brought in by Friday midnight, lending further meaning to the movie title. At the start of the movie, when Jack Walsh brings Monroe Bouchet (<a href="/name/nm0866019/">John Toles-Bey</a>) to the police station to be booked, a policeman says to Jack, &quot;Hey Jack, the Soda machine&#39;s been out for a week and a half.&quot; Jack responds to this comment with a contemptuous smirk. It is likely that the policeman means it as a sign of disrespect to Jack. He is saying something like &quot;You must be here to fix the soda machine, because you sure don&#39;t work here.&quot; It&#39;s an acknowledgment that Jack used to be a cop, but has now fallen on hard times, and has no real business in a police station. It is most likely a nickname which originated in his real name—Jonathan Mardukas. His surname is pronounced Mar-Duke-Is, with the stress naturally falling on the second syllable (Duke), hence the nickname of the Duke. Jack Walsh (<a href="/name/nm0000134/">Robert De Niro</a>) finds Mardukas (<a href="/name/nm0001301/">Charles Grodin</a>) relatively easily by checking his police booking slip, and finding the number Mardukas called immediately after he was arrested. Jack then has his police contact find out where the house is to which the number belongs. Jack then taps the phone line in the house and calls the house pretending to be an FBI agent looking into the Mardukas case. This prompts the woman who lives in the house to immediately call Mardukas himself. However, because Jack has tapped the line, he is then able to discover exactly where Mardukas is staying. As such, Jack is able to find Mardukas easily, in contrast to the FBI and the mob, both of whom are unaware of what city Mardukas is even in. Obviously, in reality, this is preposterous, the FBI would easily have been able to do what Jack did, and the Mob, one would imagine, would have their own contacts with access to police files. However, in the context of the film, the incident is simply a way of presenting Jack as resourceful and determined, whilst the FBI and the mob are shown to be quite inept, always a few steps behind Jack. Marvin Dorfler (<a href="/name/nm0039226/">John Ashton</a>) is able to cancel Jack&#39;s (<a href="/name/nm0000134/">Robert De Niro</a>) credit card simply by calling the credit card company, giving his name and card number, and saying he has lost his card. In 1988, there were few checks in place to stop such things. Credit card issuers were interested in stopping unauthorized use of cards, not unauthorized cancellations. The question of how could Marvin have known Jack&#39;s credit card number in the first place is left open, but some hints are given. Marvin is shown several times during the movie as being thoroughly unscrupulous, it is probable that Marvin simply got Jack&#39;s card number at some stage in the past and kept it for just such an incident as is seen in the film. Because, as Mardukas says, it&#39;s not a bribe, it&#39;s a gift; Jack has already let Mardukas go before Mardukas gives him the money, so taking the money from Mardukas does not violate Jack&#39;s moral code in any way. The R1 US DVD, released by Universal Home Entertainment in 2003, contains the following special features:<br/><br/>An untitled 7-minute behind-the-scenes featurette made in 1988, featuring interviews with <a href="/name/nm0000134/">Robert De Niro</a>, <a href="/name/nm0001301/">Charles Grodin</a>, <a href="/name/nm0001433/">Yaphet Kotto</a>, <a href="/name/nm0039226/">John Ashton</a>, <a href="/name/nm0001199/">Dennis Farina</a>, <a href="/name/nm0286561/">Richard Foronjy</a>, <a href="/name/nm0592188/">Robert Miranda</a>, <a href="/name/nm0000976/">Martin Brest</a> and <a href="/name/nm0303032/">George Gallo</a>.<br/><br/>Original Theatrical Trailer<br/><br/>The R2 UK DVD, released by Universal Home Entertainment (UK) in 2003 has the trailer, but loses the featurette. Yes, it is. The Region B locked UK edition, released in 2015, contains the following special features:<br/><br/>• &quot;We Got the Duke&quot; - an interview with Charles Grodin<br/><br/>• &quot;Moscone Bail Bonds&quot; - an interview with Joe Pantoliano<br/><br/>• &quot;Hey Marvin!&quot; - an interview with John Ashton<br/><br/>• &quot;Midnight Writer&quot; - an interview with screenwriter George Gallo<br/><br/>• &quot;I&#39;m Mosely!&quot; - an interview with Yaphet Kotto<br/><br/>• The original 7-minute &quot;making of&quot; featurette<br/><br/>• The Region A locked US edition, released by Shout! Factory in 2016, contains all the special features from the UK edition, plus<br/><br/>• A new 2K resolution scan of the original film elements<br/><br/>• &quot;Being Jack Walsh&quot; - an interview with Robert De Niro
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