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Running Scared
Directed by
Peter Hyams
R
1986
1h 47m
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Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer who nearly killed them in the past.
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Cast of Running Scared
Gregory Hines
Ray Hughes
Billy Crystal
Danny Costanzo
Steven Bauer
Det. Frank Sigliano
Darlanne Fluegel
Anna Costanzo
Joe Pantoliano
Snake
Dan Hedaya
Captain Logan
Jon Gries
Det. Tony Montoya
Tracy Reed
Maryann
Jimmy Smits
Julio Gonzales
John DiSanti
Vinnie
Larry Hankin
Ace
Don Calfa
Women's Room Lawyer
Robert Lesser
Supoena Lawyer
Betty Carvalho
Apartment Manager
Louis Perez
Thug
Etel Billig
Aunt Sophie
Meg Register
Julie
Deanna Dunagan
Sister Rebecca
Jim Ortlieb
Lab Technician
Julian Pena
Columbian Youth
Running Scared Ratings & Reviews
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
While the 1980s were frequently a safe haven for such disastrous, what-were-they-thinking? screen teams as Pat Morita & Jay Leno (Collision Course) and Ted Danson & Howie Mandel (A Fine Mess), this offered a "buddy comedy" pairing that actually worked.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...a fairly standard buddy-cop comedy that benefits from its top-notch performances and smattering of engrossing, exciting action sequences...
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Crystal and Hines don't have great chemistry, nor do they have a complementary repartee.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
"Running Scared" tries to be a light comedy in a violent, comic-book world. That's a difficult juggling act, and director Peter Hyams doesn't pull it off.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
A functional 1986 actioner about two wisecracking Chicago cops (Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal) and their vendetta against a Latino crime lord (Jimmy Smits).
Variety
Variety Staff
No more original or eventful than an average police TV show, so it must sink or swim on the moment-by-moment cleverness of the dialog and the behavioral talents of Hines and Crystal. Fortunately, these elements prove formidable.
TV Guide
Wisecracking their way through tough situations and bickering like an old married couple, Hines and Crystal succeed in creating a new buddy team that ranks with the likes of Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
Arizona Daily Star
Phil Villarreal
Has all the logic and transitional ease of a Pokmon-style card game played by 5-year-olds who don't understand the rules, so they make up their own as they go.
Fantastica Daily
Chuck O'Leary
A breezily entertaining buddy-cop movie with too much cutesy shtick for its own good. Gregory Hines is OK, but Billy Crystal is never believable as a Chicago cop.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Another, thoroughly depressing demonstration of the extent to which television now dictates the style and the manners of so many of the movies we see in theaters.
Henderson Home News (Henderson, NV)
Kevin Fiddler
Pre-Lethal Weapon mid-80s buddy flick before
Flipside Movie Emporium
Rob Vaux
Relentlessly competent in a TBS Saturday afternoon kind of way.
Moviehole
Caffeinated Clint
Crystal and Hines are a great double act. Laughs aplenty.
Apollo Guide
Scott Weinberg
The most appealing thing about this movie is the charisma and good humour delivered by the two leads.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This genre is so overpopulated that it hardly seems like we need one more example, and yet "Running Scared" transcends its dreary roots and turns out to be a lot of fun.
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