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Runaway Train

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Runaway Train
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R,1hr 50min
Genres:
Action,Drama
Release:
1985
Director:
Andrei Konchalovsky
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay  ...more
Synopsis: Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's second American film may well be the only existential adventure flick in Hollywood history. Two prisoners, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts), escape from a desolate Alaskan maximum-security facility. They hop aboard a speeding train, making a clean escape. But the engineer has suffered a heart attack, and the train goes out of control. To prevent a disastrous head-on collision, the railroad heads decide to derail the runaway train, killing its occupants ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
A decade later, there would be the wildly successful Speed, featuring Sandra Bullock on a runaway bus. In 1985, it was Rebecca DeMornay on a Runaway Train, and it was not a big hit. In fact, out-of-control vehicles, mostly trains, have been a staple of film comedies and melodramas since the days of the silent films. Runaway Train takes the simple premise and makes a compelling movie of it, with two ... Full Review
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Jon Voight
Manny
Eric Roberts
Buck
Rebecca De Mornay
Sara
Kyle Heffner
Frank Barstow
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