Midnight Run
- Robert De Niro: Jack Walsh
- Charles Grodin: Jonathan Mardukas
- Yaphet Kotto: FBI Agent Alonzo Mosely
- Dennis Farina: Jimmy Serrano
- Joe Pantoliano: Eddie Moscone
- Richard Foronjy: Tony Darvo
- Robert Miranda: Joey
- Jack Kehoe: Jerry Geisler
- Wendy Phillips: Gail
- Danielle Duclos: Denise Walsh
- Philip Baker Hall: Sidney
- Tom McCleister: Bill Wood
Midnight Run - Five Days to Midnight ( Midnight Run ) is an American comedy thriller from 1988 and starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. .
Action
The accountant Jonathan Mardukas embezzles as an employee of mafia boss Jimmy Serrano $ 15 million and gives it to charities on. Then he sets off. He is arrested and Eddie Moscone, the holder of a deposit offices, deposited for him $ 450,000 bail. However Mardukas settles again and Moscone fears that he has to write off its $ 450,000. To save him the bounty hunter Jack Walsh, a former cop from Chicago. This is Mardukas track in New York and bring him within five days after Los Angeles. As a reward he will get $ 100,000.
The company represented by Alonzo Mosely FBI is also interested to track Mardukas. You want him testifying against Serrano. Mosely harassed Walsh. He should not get involved in the search for Mardukas and is left to the FBI the field.
Walsh tracks down Mardukas and arrests him. He assumes that it will be possible for him to bring Madurkas by plane to Los Angeles. However, this simulates severe fear of flying, so the only remaining possibility to cover the distance by rail.
The FBI and the Mafia pursue Walsh and Mardukas, but tend to lag initially always one step behind. Also Mardukas undertakes an escape attempt, but Walsh catches him again. A little later Mardukas is kidnapped by Serranos people.
Walsh is lying Serrano before he was in possession of computer disks that were made by Mardukas and material contained, which had created him. The discs he wants to trade for Mardukas. At the end Serrano was arrested in Las Vegas by Walsh and the FBI.
Walsh leaves free Mardukas. This returns the favor by Walsh leaves a money belt containing $ 300,000.
Reviews
Roger Ebert praised in the Chicago Sun - Times July 20, 1988, the outstanding performances by Robert De Niro. After his performance in Brazil he had succeeded once again to bring his comic side to full advantage. Ebert certifies the two leads that it in a convincing way to understand the elements of a comedy with elements of a thriller to join.
Joachim estimation praised www.filmzentrale.com on the representations of Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, who was to mix in his game callousness and naivety. He described the script as efficient but not elegant, the characters as intelligent, the movie as fast-paced.
Awards
Robert De Niro and the film for Best Comedy in 1989 nominated for a Golden Globe. Charles Grodin 1988 won a prize from the Valladolid International Film Festival.
Title
A midnight run ( English about " midnight excursion " ) is in American English a short, spätabendlicher shopping trip to get some beer or cigarettes. In the film, the bail bonds office owner promises the bounty hunter, the job was a "midnight run", in this context, so an easy and fast job. In addition, the fugitive is Friday midnight will be delivered - even in this respect the order is therefore a "midnight run".