Sentences with phrase «la midnight run»

He had recurring roles in The West Wing and The Pretender and isshopping a screenplay — «a cross between Midnight Run and Escape fromAlcatraz.»

No midnight runs to the store while the baby stews in filth to buy disposables at the 24 hr Wal - Mart.

Cloth diapering is rewarding for all the reasons mentioned above, but especially for dodging midnight runs to the store, you'll never really be out of diapers.

This has fooled many a woman into a midnight run to her hospital or birthing center.

Midnight Run is two films.

Okay, so it's Midnight Run meets All The President's Men, but the Lemmon - Garner rapport is dynamite and the glittering support cast of Lauren Bacall, Dan Aykroyd and John Heard are given sparkling dialogue.

Martin Brest directed Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run.)

«Gigli,» directed by the historically competent Martin Brest («Beverly Hills Cop,» «Midnight Run,» «Scent of a Woman»), may be a patchwork of ideas that have been put to better use in other movies a glob of «Rain Man,» a dash of «Prizzi's Honor,» a schmear of «Chasing Amy» but it has a special badness all its own.

One could, if one was being kind, assume that the makers of Gringo were aiming for that elusive jokey crime thriller tone so brilliantly achieved by Midnight Run.

The R - rated comedy actioner doesn't look that far removed from «Beverly Hills Cop» or «Midnight Run» (perhaps Harold Faltermeyer should score?)

Hamburger Hill (1987 USA, dir John Irvin, stars Dylan McDermott, Don Cheadle)[7/16] Super Size Me (2004 USA, dir Morgan Spurlock)[7/16] Trapped in Paradise (1994 USA, dir George Gallo, stars Dana Carvey, Nicolas Cage)[7/16] Back to School (1986 USA, dir Alan Metter, stars Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon)[7/17] Caramel (2007 Lebanon, dir Nadine Labaki, stars Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Elmasri)[7/17] The Jacket (2005 USA, dir John Maybury, stars Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley)[7/17] Rabbit - Proof Fence (2002 Australia, dir Phillip Noyce, stars Kenneth Branagh)[7/17] Surrogates (2009 USA, dir Jonathan Mostow, stars Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell)[7/20] Circle of Iron (1978 USA, dir Richard Moore, stars David Carradine, Jeff Cooper)[7/22] Purple Rain (1984 USA, dir Albert Magnoli, stars Prince, Apollonia Kotero)[7/22] The Battle of Algiers (1966 Italy / Algeria, dir Gillo Pontecorvo, stars Brahim Haggiag)[7/22] Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985 USA, dir Paul Schrader)[7/22] Pandora's Box (1929 Germany, dir G.W. Pabst, stars Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner)[7/22] Richard III (1955 UK, dir Laurence Olivier, stars Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke)[7/22] Samurai Rebellion (1967 Japan, dir Masaki Kobayashi, stars Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa)[7/22] Tout va bien (1972 France, dir Jean - Luc Godard, stars Yves Montand, Jane Fonda)[7/22] Ugetsu (1953 Japan, dir Kenji Mizoguchi, stars Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô)[7/22] Umberto D (1952 Italy, dir Vittorio De Sica, stars Carlo Battisti, Maria - Pia Casilio)[7/22] The Beguiled (1971 USA, dir Don Siegel, stars Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page)[7/26] Midnight Run (1988 USA, dir Martin Brest, stars Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin)[7/26]

Seeing as his resume contains titles like Midnight Run and Bad Boys, he seems like more of a match for this material.

Previous attempts to exercise his funny bone came with varying degrees of success: The King of Comedy stands alongside De Niro's best work while Midnight Run proved his sharp sense of tightly - wound timing as the straight - half of a memorable comedic double - act.

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The film is a buddy action comedy in the vein of «The In - Laws» and «Midnight Run,» with a splash of 1930s movie slapstick.

«There's a little bit of Midnight Run, with [Charles] Grodin and [Robert] De Niro.

Still, it's interesting to learn that Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run served as templates for The Other Guys, even if it was already a given.

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However, from the arrival of Rey onwards, the film attempts to juxtapose into this dark universe something of the buddy movie, albeit, in a much less frivolous manner than in pictures such as Midnight Run and 48 Hours.

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It's the first feature film for artsy director Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Batman), as well as the first film score by the legendary Danny Elfman (Midnight Run, Darkman), cementing the relationship that would make some of the most interesting, visually arresting films of the 80s and 90s.

And though this is his first one - hander in quite a while, De Niro has an appealing supporting cast assembled around him, giving us a chance to see him share the big screen with Harvey Keitel yet again and to reunite with Charles Grodin for the first time since the classic 1988 buddy comedy Midnight Run.

This quirky comedy stars Robert De Niro (Goodfellas, Midnight Run) as Wayne «Mad Dog» Dobie, a timid police photographer who saves the life of a local crime boss, Frank (Bill Murray, Groundhog Day), during a robbery.

Despite working with Danny Elfman on his previous six films, Burton chose Howard Shore to compose the score, while the editing was handled by the two - time Academy Award nominee and Midnight Run editor Chris Lebenzon.

The Hitman's Bodyguard won't be enjoyable for people well - versed in 80s buddy movies like Midnight Run, 48 Hrs., or Lethal Weapon, and the recent gems of the subgenre like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or The Nice Guys.

The Hitman's Bodyguard, which bears the tagline «Get triggered» and is essentially a dumber, tackier Midnight Run, was destined to be one of those Neanderthalic, faux - merican EuropaCorp action movies, like The Transporter or From Paris With Love — except fate fumbled, and the film ended up as a coasting - on - star - power...

You'll be tempted to call it a «buddy comedy», but that label typically applies to mismatched pairs connected by circumstance à la Midnight Run and Rush Hour.

The movie steals several tropes from past on - the - road comedies, including, most blatantly, 1988's Midnight Run.

For special features you get lengthy new interviews with Charles Grodin, Joe Pantoliano, John Ashton and George Gallo as well as an old audio interview with Yaphet Kotto and the original «Making Midnight Run» promo.

Midnight Run is out now in the UK on Blu - Ray, released by Second Sight.

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As I said in the opening paragraph, I really enjoyed Midnight Run.

He disappeared completely after that, which is a terrible shame as he probably wasn't to blame for the abomination that was Gigli and Midnight Run in particular shows that he was (and presumably still is) a huge talent.

However, when a Midnight Run press release reached me recently I went against the grain, reviewing something I own and saw (for the first time) only a few months ago.

Midnight Run is not quite a «cult classic» in the Rocky Horror sense of the phrase.

A distaff retread of «Midnight Run» may have been unambitious but it wouldn't have been this unpleasant.

He appeared in «Midnight Run,» a 1988 action comedy with Oscar - winner De Niro; «Cocktail,» a romantic - comedy starring Cruise as a bartender with flashy, acrobatic drink - making skills; and «Naked Gun,» the goofball police comedy with Leslie Nielsen as a bumbling detective, Priscilla Presley as Nielsen's love interest and O.J. as an accident - prone cop.

Directed by Taika Waititi — the man behind last year's Empire Film Of The Year, Hunt For The Wilderpeople — the next entry from the MCU has a bit of a Midnight Run vibe, according to co-star Mark Ruffalo, who told us last year it will be a «road trip across the universe».

Classic buddy pictures typically threw together mismatched protagonists who slowly became friends: Martin Brest's Midnight Run is the gold standard of the genre, and looks like Citizen Kane next to this thing.

That's if the performance of Thor is an indication: The Marvel film earned $ 3.3 million in its midnight run before going on to gross $ 65.7 million in its first weekend.

While some have wondered what the tone of the picture will be, Verbinski's description of the movie conjures up, of all things, «Midnight Run.»

The best laughs are at the expense of the CIA, though there's nothing to match the sheer bliss of Robert de Niro outwitting the Agency in Midnight Run.

After this film, the only movies he made are: Midnight Run, Scent Of A Woman, Meet Joe Black and... Gigli.

Per the standards long established in the road trip buddy comedy (a subgenre also embodied by films like Midnight Run and Tommy Boy), the mismatched men of course endure high - spirited adventure and outrageous obstacles en route to their destination.

Playing as a mix of Romancing the Stone, Midnight Run, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Rundown is a serviceable and fun action flick.

As far as the narrative side of the equation is concerned, the film plays both like a 1980's - style buddy comedy like Midnight Run or 48 Hrs.

Many of the best - remembered elements — the FAO Schwarz piano scene, the near - casting of Robert De Niro (who went on to make another one of the 1980s» best comedies, Midnight Run), concurrently - produced body - switching comedies, the movie's public and critical success — are discussed here and elsewhere, but this succeeds as the most encompassing general retrospective, marred only by the non-participation of Hanks and John Heard.

don't even bother downloading this show until you've purchased your 4 - pack of Midnight Run sequels.

Not that Giorgio Moroder's score is anything special; it's mildly okay, just because it basically plagiarizes Danny Elfman's score for Midnight Run.

«Just Getting Started» is described on IMDb as «a two - hander action comedy» in the vein of «Midnight Run.»