Nowhere to Run [Blu-ray]

Director: Robert Harmon

Overview

An escaped convict fights for his rights while hiding out from the law in this action drama. Sam Gillen (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a thief who, despite his criminal past, is an essentially decent man; he ended up behind bars after taking a murder rap for his partner. Sam escapes from prison in a daring jailbreak, and he hides out on a remote farm while on the run from police. A young boy named Mookie (Kieran Culkin) finds the fugitive and takes him in; it seems that the farm belongs to his mother Clydie (Roseanna Arquette), and soon Mookie and his sister Bree (Tiffany Taubman) have become friends with Sam, and Clydie and Sam fall in love. However, Franklin Hale (Joss Ackland), an unscrupulous land developer, wants to buy Clydie's farm and isn't taking no for an answer. When Hale's thug Dunston (Ted Levine) tries to use force to drive Clydie off her property, Sam is ready to fight fire with fire. Nowhere to Run was co-authored by noted screenwriter Joe Eszterhas; Richard Marquand received his story credit posthumously.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/19/2011
UPC:	0014381716658
Original Release:	1993
Rating:	R
Source:	Image Entertainment
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:34:00
Sales rank:	4,374

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jean-Claude Van Damme	Sam Gillen
Rosanna Arquette	Clydie
Kieran Culkin	Mookie
Ted Levine	Mr. Dunston
Edward Blatchford	Lonnie
Anthony Starke	Billy
Joss Ackland	Franklin Hale
Tiffany Taubman	Bree
Jackie Burch	Actor
Gene LeBell	Bulldozer Man
Manny Perry	Prisoner
Leonard Termo	Bus Guard
Bob Apisa	Prisoner
Jophery Brown	Prisoner
Tony Brubaker	Prisoner
Ron George	Prisoner
Jack Lucarelli	Prisoner
Peter Malota	Prisoner
Frank Orsatti	Prisoner
Thomas Rosales	Prisoner
Ron Stein	Prisoner
Sven-Ole Thorsen	Prisoner
Jack Verbois	Prisoner
Chuck Zito	Prisoner
James Greene	Country Store Clerk
Steve Chambers	Pick-Up Truck Thug
Christy Botkin	Sarah Lewis
Luana Anders	Town Meeting Chairwoman
Kevin Page	Hale's Associate
Albie Selznick	Hale's Associate
Jack Gill	Bulldozer Man
Jeff Ramsey	Bulldozer Man
John Rubinow	Clydie's Husband
Stanley White	Cop in Diner
John Finn	Cop in Chase
John Kerry	Big Thug "John"
Tony Epper	Fire Thug "Al"
Mark Isham	Composer

Technical Credits

Joe Eszterhas

Leslie Bohem

Randy Feldman

Richard Marquand

Craig Baumgarten	Producer
Gary Adelson	Producer
Joe Eszterhas	Screenwriter
Leslie Bohem	Screenwriter
Randy Feldman	Screenwriter
Richard Marquand	Screenwriter
Billy Burton	Stunts
Michael Rachmil	Executive Producer
Jeff Jarvis	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

It's hard to pinpoint the most gloriously ludicrous element of this Jean-Claude Van Damme thriller, which was directed by Robert Harmon (The Hitcher) and co-written by Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct). Maybe it's the improbable casting of offbeat urban pixie Rosanna Arquette as Clydie, a proud, kindly widow fighting to save her farm from greedy real-estate developers. Possibly, it's the fact that Clydie's kids have been saddled with the names Mookie (Kieran Culkin) and Bree (Tiffany Taubman) -- unlikely monikers that seem downright preposterous when applied to a pair of precocious urchins. Perhaps it's the script's attempt to manipulate heartstrings via poor, fatherless Mookie's paternal longing for Sam, Van Damme's escaped convict with a heart of gold. Probably, though, it's Van Damme's frequent semi-nudity and the script's resulting sexual anxiety. We get Sam looking at porno mags in his woodland hideout. We get Bree and Mookie stumbling on the naked Sam as he bathes in a lake. And ultimately, we get a frank discussion about the size of Sam's manly endowments between Clydie, the kids, and Sam himself -- all over a hearty breakfast. If this film had starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and made 100 million dollars at the box office, these varied facts could have provided the basis for many interesting theories about gender roles and the state of the American family in the 1990s. Given that Nowhere to Run is a far more modest production, however, its many idiosyncrasies serve only to distract attention from the fact that it's not a very good action movie.