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Runaway Train
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Escaped convicts (Jon Voight, Eric Roberts) and a stowaway girl (Rebecca De Mornay) find themselves trapped on a train speeding out of control through Alaska with no brakes and nobody driving.
Escaped convicts (Jon Voight, Eric Roberts) and a stowaway girl (Rebecca De Mornay) find themselves trapped on a train speeding out of control through Alaska with no brakes and nobody driving.
Actors:
Kathryn Mullen,
John Otrin,
Don Pugsley,
Norman Alexander Gibbs,
Carmen Filpi,
Big Yank,
Hank Worden
Kathryn Mullen
10 February 1940, New York City, New York, USA
John Otrin
Don Pugsley
Norman Alexander Gibbs
1938
Carmen Filpi
22 March 1923, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Big Yank
Hank Worden
23 July 1901, Rolfe, Iowa, USA
Director:
Andrey Konchalovskiy
Andrey Konchalovskiy
20 August 1937, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Country:
United States
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Moviehole
May 12, 2005
You'll be on the edge of your seat....until it stops
June 23, 2011
A gripping action thriller that's also extremely well acted by Jon Voight and Eric Roberts in Oscar-nominated performances.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
The nihilism and the vicious intensity of Mr. Voight's performance here are entirely different from anything else he has done on screen; it's a shame those qualities emerge in such a vigorous but disjointed film.
Spirituality and Practice
August 21, 2004
Gets derailed by a mediocre screenplay.
January 01, 2000
Runaway Train belongs to a rare genre: the intelligent thriller.
February 07, 2014
A thunderous proto-Speed with exploitation trappings, it also works as an existential art movie with a serious director and a dusted-off Akira Kurosawa script.
March 26, 2009
Wrenchingly intense and brutally powerful, Andrei Konchalovsky's film rates as a most exciting action epic and is fundamentally serious enough to work strongly on numerous levels.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
September 01, 2009
While RUNAWAY TRAIN does balance action and philosophy quite neatly it's still intriguing to wonder how differently Kurosawa would have handled it
January 01, 2000
Runaway Train is a reminder that the great adventures are great because they happen to people we care about.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
March 02, 2008
Highly unusual drama with single premise: survive the runaway train. A metaphor for us all.
February 09, 2006
Somehow one leaves aside the blatant implausibilities, the coincidences, even Eric Roberts, and takes great pleasure in a breakneck ride to the end of the line.
January 02, 2016
A terrific mix of tightly coiled action and psychoanalysis that has no place in a genre film from the '80s, but works splendidly regardless.