Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) is an ex-Chicago cop now Los Angeles bounty hunter. He scours the filthiest locales to find bail jumpers and returns them for whatever pittance he can get. When he's offered $100k for Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin), an ex-accountant for the mob that stiffed them for $15M, this is his chance to get out of the bounty hunter business for good.
"Midnight Run" is a crime action version of "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles." Walsh has to get Mardukas from New York to L.A. in a few days. That would be an easy proposition if he simply boarded a plane and flew to L.A., but of course things wouldn't be that simple.
This was an entertaining film as we saw the interaction between the angry and jaded Walsh and the philosophical and largely calm Mardukas. Throw into the mix the FBI, the mafia, another bounty hunter, and an unscrupulous bail bondsman and you have a heck of a shindig.
"Midnight Run" is a crime action version of "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles." Walsh has to get Mardukas from New York to L.A. in a few days. That would be an easy proposition if he simply boarded a plane and flew to L.A., but of course things wouldn't be that simple.
This was an entertaining film as we saw the interaction between the angry and jaded Walsh and the philosophical and largely calm Mardukas. Throw into the mix the FBI, the mafia, another bounty hunter, and an unscrupulous bail bondsman and you have a heck of a shindig.