Better Start Running

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Better Start Running

2018

1h 32m

Comedy

Adventure

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40%

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5 Reviews

39%

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

Harley is a store clerk whose life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself on the run with the girl of his dreams, his grandfather and a hitchhiker. Against all common sense, the four misfits follow a mysterious map that takes them on a wild and zany adventure, but a determined FBI agent and her rookie partner start to close in.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

10/12/2018

An accomplished cast does what it can to bring the material to life, but it's tough to add fine emotional shading to characters so thick and cartoonish.

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Chris Salce

Film Threat

02/28/2019

9/10

Better Start Running is dark, funny and sweet. The film acts as a refreshing palate cleanser from everything else out there.

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Tynan Yanaga

Film Inquiry

10/27/2018

It meanders around when a commitment to even one theme or tone would have been most admirable.

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Anne Brodie

What She Said

10/18/2018

Plenty of compassion fills this sweet story, as the unbalanced FBI agent bears down and freedom seems unlikely.

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

10/11/2018

D+

It's difficult to find specific faults with the picture's construction when so much of it doesn't work.

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01/22/2021

Great storytelling and characterisation. I can't understand why it has such a low rating.

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05/22/2020

This wasn't a terrible film... the characters are quirky and the events are unrealistic. Eventually we learn the stories behind some of the characters's eccentricities which gives them more depth and makes them seem less cartoonish.

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David V

@MBgolfee 04/13/2020

Boring movie. A stupid premise that makes no sense. It wanders all over with no cohesive theme. Very unrealistic in every way, Things would never happen this way.

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12/13/2019

Keep an open mind and it can be a fun little ride 😁

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farah r

@Farah 11/06/2019

Slow, boring and generally uninteresting, Better Start Running is worse than watching paint dry.

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06/30/2019

Powerful dark and insightful with just the right amount of comedy that doesn’t overcome the message. People who seem simple to others often are not. Fitz Paradise thought he was lost and eventually discovers that he is not, but while on his journey helps others find their way. A wonderfully painful and bittersweet love story. Garrison is unfortunately emotionally scared from living his life according to his beliefs of honor and righteousness. Scars and all, he still holds on to the pureness of his first love, eventually to find that it was never requited. Even with all of his innocence lost, he still believes that his grandson can keep his, and he helps him to do so. A wonderful example of one generation’s sacrifice for the next in the hopes that pure and innocent love can exist in our messy world.

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Harley is a store clerk whose life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself on the run with the girl of his dreams, his grandfather and a hitchhiker. Against all common sense, the four misfits follow a mysterious map that takes them on a wild and zany adventure, but a determined FBI agent and her rookie partner start to close in.

Director: Brett Simon
Producer: Douglas W. Miller, Dawn Bierschwal, Brianna Lee Johnson, Eric Fischer, Annie Burgstede, Chad Faust
Screenwriter: Annie Burgstede, Chad Faust
Distributor: Freestyle Digital Media
Production Co: Tunnel Post, Piccadilly Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 12, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 12, 2018
Runtime: 1h 32m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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