This week we're turning our attention to 1988's Midnight Run, a buddy action comedy in which Robert De Niro finally got the chance to fully try out his comic talents. In a cinema landscape of Lethal Weapons, Beverly Hill's Cops and 48 Hours', Midnight Run remains a forgotten gem.
Director Martin Brest brings the brest out of De Niro as bounty hunter Jack Walsh, happy to subvert his tough guy persona and his quarry, deadpan master of drolery Charles Grodin as ex-mob accountant Jonathan 'The Duke' Mardukas. There's a rogues gallery of great character actors lending able support, but the show belongs to De Niro and Grodin.
