The Fugitive (1993)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.8/10   

Director:

Andrew Davis

Escritores (WGA):

Jeb Stuart (screenplay) and
David Twohy (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

6 agosto 1993 (USA)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins.

Plot:

Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of killing his wife, must find the real one-armed killer while avoiding Marshal Sam Gerard.

Plot Keywords:

Escape | Surgeon | Murder | Chase | One Armed Man

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 19 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Pure action and Tommy Lee Jones make this an unforgettable masterpiece

US TV Schedule:

Sat. July 11	8:00 PM	AETV
Sun. July 12	12:00 AM	AETV

Reparto

Harrison Ford	...	Dr. Richard Kimble
Tommy Lee Jones	...	Samuel Gerard
Sela Ward	...	Helen Kimble
Julianne Moore	...	Dr. Anne Eastman
Joe Pantoliano	...	Cosmo Renfro
Andreas Katsulas	...	Sykes
Jeroen Krabbé	...	Dr. Charles Nichols (as Jeroen Krabbe)
Daniel Roebuck	...	Biggs
L. Scott Caldwell	...	Poole
Tom Wood	...	Newman
Ron Dean	...	Detective Kelly
Joseph F. Kosala	...	Detective Rosetti (as Joseph Kosala)
Miguel Nino	...	Chicago Cop #1
John Drummond	...	Newscaster
Tony Fosco	...	Chicago Cop #2

También conocida como:

El fugitivo (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for a murder and other action sequences in an adventure setting.

Duración:

130 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Polaco | Español

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (2001) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) (original rating) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Netherlands:12 | Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Brazil:14 | Philippines:PG-13 | UK:12 (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating) (1994) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Ireland:12 | Norway:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG-13 (Certificate #32575) | Singapore:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

203 N. LaSalle Street Building, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Compañía:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivialidades:

Kimble's apartment is modeled after an actual doctor that Harrison Ford and the director met in a Chicago bar shortly before filming. Ford felt that the doctor, somewhat eccentric and reclusive, was exactly how he wanted to portray Kimble and sent the art department to see his apartment. The doctor was also treated to a drink by Ford.

Errores:

Errores Reales: During Dr. Nichols speech, he mentions that his drug (the one that Kimble discovered as causing liver damage) is on the cusp of FDA approval. This would be very unlikely as there are many safeguards in place during clinical trials to prevent bias and data tampering. When Kimble visited the pathologist she mentioned that over half the pathology reports were signed on the same day. This very likely would have been off of the clinical protocol which would have triggered a review by the hospital's institutional review board. Since the laboratory Principal Investigator died (Lentz) "last summer" the new doctor on the protocol probably would have noticed the tissue discrepancies and alerted the IRB as required. Additionally, pathologists have quality control screenings which are reviewed by other pathologists or cytologists. In all likelihood however, the drug company would have noticed the liver damage during their Phase 2 studies and would have either gone "back to formula" or would have pulled the plug on the drug as continued development would have cost hundreds of millions of dollars and would have been rejected by the FDA anyway.

Citas:

Gerard's secretary: Sam, there's a guy on the phone claiming to be Richard Kimble.
[cast cackling in background that "another" Kimble is on the phone]
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: This is Gerard.
Dr. Richard Kimble: Do you remember what I told you in the tunnel?
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: [gesturing to his men to start tracing the call] Um yeah... It was noisy... I think you said something like you didn't kill your wife.
Dr. Richard Kimble: Remember what you told me?
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: I remember you pointing my gun at me.
[Gerard's team gestures him not to antagonize Kimble and make the conversation stretch]
Dr. Richard Kimble: You said, "I don't care."
Tracing Technician: [whispering] He's on the south side.
[...]

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "The Sopranos: The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti (#1.8)" (1999)

Banda de Sonido:

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Pure action and Tommy Lee Jones make this an unforgettable masterpiece

Arnold and Sly are great action heroes. Their characters are always larger than life. Rambo and Rocky are household names and The Terminator and films like Commando are great partly because of Arnold's physical presence. But as good as they are, I don't think they can hold a candle to Harrison Ford. Sure he is in great shape, but have you ever seen an actor take average guys and make them so real that you want to know them? Take your pick, Han Solo, Indy and even his character in Six Days and Seven Nights was an adventurer. Add Richard Kimble to that list. As Kimble, Ford is perfect. He is the wronged man that has to avenge his wife's death and clear his name at the same time. He is so great in this film and I'm sure that's why so many people went to see this film at first. But I think what kept them coming back was Tommy Lee Jones. We'll get to him in a minute.

Andrew Davis proved here that he is one of the best action directors in the business today. Along with Under Siege, he showed us that he is an efficient artist that knows how to keep the action flowing. He never seems to let up with his relentless pursuit of the perfect scene. But since the film did so well and everyone pretty much knows what it is about, let's talk about the true strength of the film, and that would be Tommy Lee Jones.

" I don't bargain." " Well that's odd!"

His portrayal of Samuel Girard is an exercise in how to make the audience relate and understand a character. He starts off as a manic perfectionist. He is obsessed with capturing Kimble and that is all that matters. But as the film proceeds, you can sense his unease, his wonder and his ethos. You can tell by a simple expression that he is beginning to solve a crime and not just chase a criminal. And the turning point to me was his simple scene where he says " You know Devlin and McGregor made 4 and one half billion dollars last year? That company's a monster. " It is all in his face. He knows that Ford is innocent but he still has a job to do. It is Jones that makes this film so much fun. And I didn't think that there would be a more worthy recipient of best supporting actor in '93 than Kilmer in Tombstone, but Jones' work here was well deserving of his Oscar.

The Fugitive belongs on every top 100 list and if the AFI wasn't so enthralled with older movies, they would see that films like this are more worthy than some of the mediocrity that graces their findings. This is an incredible film.