Film: Midnight Run (1988)
Showing: New Year’s Eve, 12.05am, ITV1
Why It’s A Must-See: Actually, anyone sober enough to work a telly by five minutes past midnight is clearly doing New Year wrong, but you should set your recorder for this one before the first cork is popped.
Robert De Niro doesn’t always nail it when doing comedy, but he absolutely does here, playing a criminal-escorting bounty hunter in this odd couple road comedy alongside corporate thief Charles Grodin. Good hangover stuff for the next morning, say we.
Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...while De Niro and his captive are driving along bickering about everything and anything, like some old married couple. Despite some reasonable set pieces elsewhere, these brilliantly bathetic squabbles are definitely the highlight of Martin Brest’s surprise multi-sequel-spawning mini-hit.
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sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:52
Wasnt Sparrow's rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:54
Wasnt Sparrows rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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MarkPowell
Dec 8th 2009, 16:55
Quite right sleepwalker...good spot, dunno quite how I managed that one! Amended to what it was supposed to have been originally now, ta.
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hughjass1970
Dec 8th 2009, 22:04
Dances With Wolves - catch the James Cameron remake in theatres from 17th Dec!
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Ali1748
Dec 9th 2009, 1:32
Midnight Run is such a vastly underrated film.
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lpatterson
Dec 9th 2009, 10:51
This is a brilliant feature! Now I don't have to spend two hours with the frickin Radio Times.
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Hadouken76
Dec 9th 2009, 12:59
dick tracys 'The Blank' was basically a rip off of Rorschach
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:15
No Scrooged, shocking.
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:16
Or Bad Santa Christmas is ruined.
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badblokebob
Dec 11th 2009, 15:18
And there I was thinking Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an adaptation of a book by this guy called Roald Dahl.
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