The Fugitive

"A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins."

1993 2h 11m EN

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Synopsis

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Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.

“A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins.”

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Cast

Harrison Ford
Richard Kimble
Tommy Lee Jones
Samuel Gerard
Joe Pantoliano
Cosmo Renfro
Jeroen Krabbé
Charles Nichols
Daniel Roebuck
Biggs
L. Scott Caldwell
Poole
Tom Wood
Newman
Ron Dean
Detective Kelly

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Andrew Davis
Writers: Jeb Stuart, David Twohy, David Twohy
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 8.4× over at the box office.

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ERA

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33 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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ERA

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Part of the "Marshal Samuel Gerard Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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CAST

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220+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Andrew Davis, shot by Michael Chapman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by James Newton Howard. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Dennis Virkler shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones and Joe Pantoliano carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Andrew Davis directs. Michael Chapman behind the camera. James Newton Howard scores. Dennis Virkler cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Made its money back 8.4× over at the box office.
233 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Marshal Samuel Gerard Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4220+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Andrew Davis, shot by Michael Chapman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by James Newton Howard. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Dennis Virkler shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones and Joe Pantoliano carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins.".
10IMDB entry: tt0106977 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 25 themes, including "chicago, illinois", "escape", "chase", "doomed man".

The technical file

Cinematography: Michael Chapman
Original score: James Newton Howard
Editing: Dennis Virkler
Production design: J. Dennis Washington
Costume design: Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Makeup / hair: Kathe Swanson
VFX supervisor: William Mesa
Sound: Frank A. Montaño
Stunt coordinator: Terry Leonard
Runtime: 131 min · 2h 11m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $44,000,000
Box office: $368,875,760
Return: 838% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Fugitive (1993)

Awards

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

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Part of

Marshal Samuel Gerard Collection

Tommy Lee Jones as Senior Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard

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Wuchak2018-12-10
★ 8/10
Top-of-the-line crime thriller with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones Released in 1993 and based on the TV show from 30 years earlier, “The Fugitive” stars Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent fugitive framed for murder. As he pursues the one-armed killer & those who pulled his strings, a determined U.S. Marshal (Tommy Lee Jones) hunts Kimble down from wilderness regions to the streets of Chicago. The first 40 minutes contain the most action, hooking the viewer with an exhilarating bus wreck/train wreck followed by a phenomenal dam sequence. The rest of the movie is an intelligent and suspenseful cat-and-mouse chase with Kimble zeroing-in on those who framed him and why. “The Fugitive” was a deserved box office hit, costing $40 million and raking in $369 million with $184 of that domestically. To realize just how well-done it is, check out the sequel, “U.S. Marshals” (1998), which features the same basic plot, but without most of the magic. The film runs 2 hours, 10 minutes and was shot in Illinois and North Carolina; the dam sequence, for instance, was filmed at Cheoah Dam, Tapoco, North Carolina. GRADE: A-
CinemaSerf2025-11-15
★ 7/10
Acclaimed surgeon “Kimble” (Harrison Ford) is used to the finer things in life, but not to the back of a prison van where he finds himself after being convicted of murdering his wealthy wife. Of course he protests his innocence, but it’s the chair for him - until, unexpectedly, his transportation makes an unscheduled stop and following the ensuing fracas he manages to escape. The local cops are content that all are accounted for, but Chicago Marshall “Gerard” (Tommy Lee Jones) spots an extra set of leg irons and quickly deduces that the good doctor has got away. Now he isn’t supposed to be a man with many survival skills, but it transpires that there is no-one scorned like a man falsely accused of killing his wife and so with the tenacious “Gerard” on his tail, nothing is going to get in his way as he sets about trying to find out who really did kill his beloved “Helen” (Sela Ward). As he investigates, we are introduced to his erstwhile colleagues like “Eastman” (Julianne Moore) and “Nichols” (Jeroen Krabbé) as well as the menacing “Sykes” (Andreas Katsulas) who looks like he’d wandered straight off the set of a “Munsters” movie, but with the scientific evidence looking fairly damning, what chance he can get to the truth? Fans of the television series from the 1960s are unlikely to see too many similarities as this takes advantage of far better production techniques to immerse us in both the escapee’s desperate flight but also in the comprehensive array of kit available to his pursuers as the pace of the film hits the ground (or the water) running and rarely lets up for a couple of hours that remind us more of why the charismatic Ford was a star in the first place. The ending isn’t the best, I felt. It’s all a bit rushed and just a little too predictable but discounting that last ten minutes, this is still a solidly entertaining chase thriller that does draw us in.