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Runaway Train
Escaped convicts (Jon Voight, Eric Roberts) and a stowaway girl (Rebecca De Mornay) find themselves trapped on a train speeding out of control through Alaska with no brakes and nobody driving.
31 March 1939, Kern County, California, USA
27 June 1923, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
2 July 1932, Brooklyn, New York, USA
19 February 1944, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 December 1933, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 May 1911, New York City, New York, USA
22 February 1946, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 May 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1938
16 May 1944, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 March 1923, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
23 July 1901, Rolfe, Iowa, USA
28 October 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 December 1938, Yonkers, New York, USA
1 October 1938, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 August 1921, New York, USA
September 01, 2009
While RUNAWAY TRAIN does balance action and philosophy quite neatly it's still intriguing to wonder how differently Kurosawa would have handled it
August 21, 2004
Gets derailed by a mediocre screenplay.
May 12, 2005
You'll be on the edge of your seat....until it stops
February 07, 2014
A thunderous proto-Speed with exploitation trappings, it also works as an existential art movie with a serious director and a dusted-off Akira Kurosawa script.
March 02, 2008
Highly unusual drama with single premise: survive the runaway train. A metaphor for us all.
January 01, 2000
Runaway Train belongs to a rare genre: the intelligent thriller.
June 23, 2011
A gripping action thriller that's also extremely well acted by Jon Voight and Eric Roberts in Oscar-nominated performances.
March 26, 2009
Wrenchingly intense and brutally powerful, Andrei Konchalovsky's film rates as a most exciting action epic and is fundamentally serious enough to work strongly on numerous levels.
January 01, 2000
Runaway Train is a reminder that the great adventures are great because they happen to people we care about.
January 02, 2016
A terrific mix of tightly coiled action and psychoanalysis that has no place in a genre film from the '80s, but works splendidly regardless.
May 20, 2003
The nihilism and the vicious intensity of Mr. Voight's performance here are entirely different from anything else he has done on screen; it's a shame those qualities emerge in such a vigorous but disjointed film.
February 09, 2006
Somehow one leaves aside the blatant implausibilities, the coincidences, even Eric Roberts, and takes great pleasure in a breakneck ride to the end of the line.
