Running Man (1987)

Director: Paul Michael Glaser  Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger  
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Product Summary
Publisher: Lions Gate
Format: DVD
UPC: 00017153584127
Buy.com Sku: 202646155
Item#: V2F5VR
Category Keywords: Action  Based On A Novel  Cops  Futuristic  Game Shows  Theatrical Release  Thriller 
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Features: DVD
 
"the running man" is a game show in 2019. Where convicts can winpardons by defeating murderous henchmen. The "stalkers"schwarzenegger is wrongly convicted of slaughtering 1500innocent people, and he is the next contestant to fight for hislife...And his freedom.
 


Editor's Note

Set in 2019, an ex-cop framed and convicted of mass slaughter, becomes a contestant on the most popular game show in which convicted felons race for their lives in decimated L.A. in hopes of a pardon. Adapted from a Stephen King novel.


Plot Summary

In the 21st Century, the government frames a good cop for a bloody massacre. The authorities take him into custody and then give him an option: he can spend the rest of his life in jail or participate in a "gladiator" type television show that usually culminates with the death of the protagonist. The wronged cop agrees to the challenge, teaming up with a pair of revolutionaries and an innocent young woman to survive the game and overthrow the corrupt system.

 
Features
Region 1
Letterbox - 1.85

 
Entertainment Reviews
The Running Man - DVD Review
By: Pete Croatto - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews
Published on: 5/8/2009 5:39 PM
Game/reality shows have already entered the realm of the grotesque with people eating cow stomachs on Fear Factor, getting verbally castrated by Simon Cowell and company on American Idol, and tolerating Donald Trump’s presence on The Apprentice. Seeing people actually hunted down by killers seems like the next logical step. And we have a movie for a template! That movie is The Running Man, the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle that resembles a lot of the Governator’s best work: He kills people by the dozens, says some funny puns in that fist-thick Austrian accent and tags along with a hot exotic beauty....read the full review

 
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Release Information
Studio: Lions Gate
Release Date: 8/20/2002
Running Time: 101 minutes
Original Release Date: 1987
Catalog ID: 58412
UPC: 00017153584127
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Available Audio Tracks: English [CC]
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Yaphet Kotto
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Maria Conchita Alonso
Richard Dawson
Paul Michael Glaser - Director

 
Professional Reviews
New York Times
"...Raffish....Dawson steals the movie..." 11/13/1987 p.C10

Los Angeles Times
"...A high-energy futuristic science-fiction thriller..." 11/13/1987 p.C10

  
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