The Fugitive

Starring: Ford, Harrison and Jones, Tommy Lee

Product Description

A U.S. marshal hunts a doctor on the run for the murder of his wife. Inspired by the 1960s TV series. Best supporting Oscar for Jones.

• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: English
• UPC: 012569828407
• Release Date: August 2006
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Studio Distribution Servi
• Director: Davis, Andrew
• Starring: Ford, Harrison, Jones, Tommy Lee
• Runtime: 2 hours, 7 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Blu-ray
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

Leaves you wanting more.

Everyone remembers the 1963 series where Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) goes running around in every episode, just missing the criminal that killed his wife. He, in turn, is being chased by Lt. Philip Gerard (Barry Morse), who thinks Kimble did it and is a fugitive from the law. The whole thing was narrated by William Conrad. Well, now we have the movie. This time we have a beginning, middle, and ending all in 161 minutes. Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) and his wife Helen (Sela Ward) are the perfect couple. Then one night while Richard was working late, for some inexplicable reason, a despicable person dispatches Helen. On her way to the netherworld, she inadvertently says “Richard” on the 911 call. One thing leads to another, and Kimble gets the blame. In the process of transporting him from one containment system to another, the transport meets with a little accident; now Kimble is free to locate the real perpetrator. It is up to Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) to find and retrieve Kimble. Now that we have covered the basics, there is nowhere to begin to tell how great this movie is on many levels. The anticipation of the chase of Kimble to find the perpetrator (by the way, the perpetrator has only one arm) before Gerard catches him. We get close and have a few red herrings. Tommy Lee gets to keep his stoic look as he says things like "I don't care." And "I don't bargain." I think that the Chicago police knew all along who the real bad guy was and was covering for him several times right up to the end. They went out of their way to paint Kimble as the bad guy. Detective Rosetti (Joseph F. Kosala) also tried to stop him from revealing the real perpetrator. Rosetti referred to Kimball even after the truth is revealed: "He's going down. You won't help us; you stay the hell out!"