# early 90s movie help ( a thriller )

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 12, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-90s-movie-help-a-thriller/524610 "2010-01-12T02:56:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![flano1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@flano1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flano1)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-90s-movie-help-a-thriller/524610/1 "2010-01-12T02:56:01Z")

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my 22yr old son has just reminded me of a movie we saw when he was about 6.

all we can remember is:

1. guy and gal being chased by bunches of people

2. during one of the chase scenes there is a car screaming in or out of a railway tunnel and being confronted by a train

3. and this is what we remember most, the two protagonists are holed up in the ubiquitis grungy $7 motel; the gal turns on the shower or basin faucet and is  
met by a stream of cockroaches.

( no, it is not joe’s apartment )

very derivative movie with all the usual suspects, but i want to see it again.

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**Author:** ![flano1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@flano1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flano1)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-90s-movie-help-a-thriller/524610/2 "2010-01-12T02:57:51Z")

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[QUOTE=ubiquitis [/QUOTE]

oops  
ubiquitous

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**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-90s-movie-help-a-thriller/524610/3 "2010-01-12T15:21:06Z")

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A stream of cockroaches or just one big one? That happens in [Bird on a Wire (1990)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099141/) which is about a guy and gal on the run.

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**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-90s-movie-help-a-thriller/524610/4 "2010-01-12T16:50:57Z")

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Sounds like Bird on a Wire to me too. Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn go in the run after Mel Gibson’s witness protection program ID is compromised by a chance meeting with his girlfriend from his former life.

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**Author:** ![flano1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@flano1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flano1)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-90s-movie-help-a-thriller/524610/5 "2010-01-12T17:17:07Z")

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hmmm…

i’ll check it out.

thanks.