The Runner

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The Runner

R

2022

1h 42m

Mystery & Thriller

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After a troubled young teen is busted for cocaine possession, the police give him a choice: cooperate or spend 10 years in prison. As he's forced to confront a local drug kingpin, his addictions spiral further and further out of control.

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Phil Hoad

Guardian

11/14/2022

3/5

Rooted thoroughly in its protagonist’s introspection, The Runner makes up for what it lacks in thriller pacing with an ambitious depth of fraughtness.

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Jackie K. Cooper

jackiekcooper.com

09/20/2022

4/10

Average film about teen's drug involvement made a little special by the performance of Cameron Douglas.

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

08/24/2022

2/5

Bursting with cheesy bravado, this thriller plays out with a straight face, or rather several overacting ones.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

08/21/2022

Visually stylish, but often dull, vapid and undercooked. Edouard Philipponnat gives a charismatic performance, though.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Common Sense Media

08/21/2022

1/5

Surface-level, slick, and vacant, this drug-centric teen drama deals in spoiled, unlikable characters. As a result, it can't generate any suspense or emotions with its by-the-numbers drug-bust story.

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

08/19/2022

More familiar than fresh, this uneven coming-of-age drama feels more contrived than authentic in portraying the perils of the teenage drug trade.

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Jerod S

@jeroduptown 08/02/2023

The runner follows a troubled teen with no dad that agrees to narc on some local dealers in order to get out of a wrecked porsche. He also accidentally killed his girlfriend when she smoked his weed.

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a.l.jude p

@judebd 09/06/2022

Deserves 4 star only for the performance of the lead, rest is trivial.

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Synopsis

After a troubled young teen is busted for cocaine possession, the police give him a choice: cooperate or spend 10 years in prison. As he's forced to confront a local drug kingpin, his addictions spiral further and further out of control.

Director: Michelle Danner
Producer: Michelle Danner, Brian Drillinger, Alexandra Guarnieri, Valerie Debler, Dario Kirola, Scott Martin, Jack Sheehan, Michael Thomas Slifkin
Screenwriter: Jason Chase Tyrrell
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: All in Films
Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Teen Drug and Alcohol Use|Some Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 19, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 23, 2022
Runtime: 1h 42m