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Runaway Train

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Runaway Train (1985)

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Reviews Counted:103

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Average Rating:7.0/10

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: An existential action thriller about two escaped convicts -- Manny, a hardened lifer, and Buck, a petty criminal -- who jump a four-engine work train, hoping to ride it to freedom. When the... An existential action thriller about two escaped convicts -- Manny, a hardened lifer, and Buck, a petty criminal -- who jump a four-engine work train, hoping to ride it to freedom. When the engineer is killed, the convicts find themselves aboard a runaway train hurtling through the frozen Alaskan wilderness. Pursued by a brutal prison warden who will stop at nothing until they're caught, Manny and Buck, with the help of female railroad worker, struggle to bring the train under control before it crashes. [More]

Starring: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle Heffner

Starring: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle Heffner

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

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