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Overall Rank: 9227
Average Rating: 2.4/4
# of Ratings: 39
Theatrical Release Date: 06/27/1986
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Hyams
Actors: Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer, Dan Hedaya, Joe Pantoliano, Jimmy Smits
Plot: A pair of Chicago cops have to get back into the game after a Key West vacation when a drug dealer from their past decides to finish what he started. -- Chris Kavan
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"Running Scared" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 02/26/2012
When two hotshot Chicago detectives have a brush with their own mortality, they decide to buy a bar and retire to Key West after cracking one last case. Running Scared is the kind of film that at least on paper, looks like a pig. The plot is the usual mix of cliched characters and by the numbers plot devices (particularly the inevitable man-boy pleasing finale), and the cast hardly screams A-list. But what this film gets right is the sense of fun; it's tongue is firmly in its cheek and the great comic chemistry between Crystal and Hines is backed up by a constant stream of consistently funny jokes (my personal highlights include the police line-up and Hines' battle of the bird with a ten year old!) It's definitely a matter of taste, but for me Running Scared is far better than …
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