Nowhere to Run

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Nowhere to Run

R

1993

1h 35m

Action

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An escaped convict, Sam Gillen (Jean-Claude Van Damme) travels to a farm to search for money from an earlier heist. While out on the property, he meets pretty single mother Clydie (Rosanna Arquette) and her kids, Mookie (Kieran Culkin) and Bree (Tiffany Taubman), who are being intimidated by local land developer Franklin Hale (Joss Ackland). After falling for Clydie, Sam decides to stay and help defend the farm from Hale's thugs, despite the risk that it means for him as a wanted man.

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Director Robert Harmon brings a few fresh touches to the basic action movie style.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jan 11, 2023

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Rated: D

Sep 7, 2011

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Variety Staff

Variety

A relentlessly corny and shamelessly derivative vehicle.

Nov 2, 2008

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

The arms-length atmosphere is, at least, alleviated by Van Damme’s typically stirring work and the inclusion of a few action-packed interludes...

Rated: 2.5/4

Nov 11, 2022

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Vanessa Letts

The Spectator

The plot is a succession of flimsy excuses for dressing Van Damme up and stripping him down again.

Jul 24, 2018

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Malcolm Johnson

Hartford Courant

Van Damme's new slugfest runs along a familiar trail, going nowhere in particular.

Jun 5, 2018

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Audience Member

A patient, romantic film from the Van Damme canon, this one trades the flashy martial arts for big-hearted drama. Jean-Claude purists will not be disappointed! The film’s down-home, country conflict has gotten better with age, the central character relationships are sweet and tender, and there’s some solid action to boot!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/05/24

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Fred K

I thought it was a sweet story.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/23/24

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William D

Great movie lots of fun.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/22/23

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Vicky H

Not exciting and boring fight scenes. Well at least Van Damme is still younger and hot when this came out.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

08/19/23

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Jack O

Jean-Claude Van Damme has Nowhere to Run. Now that film really took my interest and I decide to give it a watch and then I think it was decent. Not good, not bad. It has some drama to it and then has action which you want to see from Van Damme. It does get boring and dull at parts and time but it does have some great action fight scenes like Van Damme escaped from the prison bus, the motorcycle chase and the end fight scene which is awesome. Two of them scenes, the motorcycle and the end fight which I think in the third act is awesome. This movie has some awesome fight scenes and it was a shame cause it was just your average action film. Kind of entertaining in parts but again I expect more from Nowhere to Run.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/19/23

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Danny R

It was your typical van damme movie, except the addition of Ted Levine as the hard man villain which ultimately ruined it for me

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/14/23

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Synopsis

An escaped convict, Sam Gillen (Jean-Claude Van Damme) travels to a farm to search for money from an earlier heist. While out on the property, he meets pretty single mother Clydie (Rosanna Arquette) and her kids, Mookie (Kieran Culkin) and Bree (Tiffany Taubman), who are being intimidated by local land developer Franklin Hale (Joss Ackland). After falling for Clydie, Sam decides to stay and help defend the farm from Hale's thugs, despite the risk that it means for him as a wanted man.

Director: Robert Harmon
Producer: Craig Baumgarten, Gary Adelson
Screenwriter: Joe Eszterhas, Leslie Bohem, Randy Feldman
Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Rating: R
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $21.9M
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: Surround

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