{"id":14319,"date":"2021-06-20T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14319"},"modified":"2021-06-20T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T21:21:11","slug":"midnight-run-1988-martin-brest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14319","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Run (1988, Martin Brest)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial screening for Charles Grodin and Yaphet Kotto, here playing a criminal banker and an FBI agent with his identity stolen, respectively.  Robert De Niro is the bounty hunter returning Grodin from NY to LA.  It&#8217;s a wacky crime comedy road movie, with the cops and the gangsters (led by Dennis Farina) and RdN&#8217;s rival hunter Marvin (John Ashton of <em>Beverly Hills Cop<\/em>) all after them, so it&#8217;s sufficiently incident-packed to be a hugely successful commercial hit.  Throwing in a sad visit to RdN&#8217;s family, and morally letting the criminal off the hook at the end turns it into a solid  80&#8217;s classic (pretty sure I saw it in theaters on first release) and also a semi-remake of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5619\">Remember The Night<\/a><\/em>.  Got tired of Marvin, didn&#8217;t buy that the criminal snipers would open fire on the cops, otherwise lives up to the legend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/midnightrun1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/midnightrun2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial screening for Charles Grodin and Yaphet Kotto, here playing a criminal banker and an FBI agent with his identity stolen, respectively. Robert De Niro is the bounty hunter returning Grodin from NY to LA. It&#8217;s a wacky crime comedy road movie, with the cops and the gangsters (led by Dennis Farina) and RdN&#8217;s rival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,2881,1058,705,294],"class_list":["post-14319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-charles-grodin","tag-road-trip","tag-robert-deniro","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14334,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions\/14334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}