Running Scared (2006)

Release date: 2006-02-24
Country: Germany|USA
Language: English|Russian|Spanish
Director: Wayne Kramer
Production Co: New Line Cinema, Media 8 Entertainment, True Grit Productions
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 7.4/10
Length: 2h 2min

Storyline

After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things go wrong for Joey after a neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find that kid and the gun before the police and the mob do.

Plot Keywords

girl in panties, corrupt cop, female frontal nudity, undercover agent, prostitute, strip club, female rear nudity, fistfight, kissing while having sex, panties, white panties, bathroom, cell phone, funeral, ice hockey, throat slitting, suicide, shotgun, shot to death, shot in the stomach

Short Review

With audiences jaded by the usual sex and splatter, do the filmmakers have no qualms about juicing up proceedings with edgy but troubling material which clearly needs more conscientious handling? Apparently not.