# Help me identify this film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-film/204819 "2003-10-01T00:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrsface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@mrsface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsface)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-film/204819/1 "2003-10-01T00:44:33Z")
This is going to sound pretty pathetic, because I have no details - actors, director, date, or even plot. I saw it a long time ago and remember loving it. At a very rough guess, I would say it was made sometime in the 80s or 90s. It involves two men travelling around the US in trains, buses etc. It is definitely NOT ‘Planes Trains and Automobiles’, though, (I saw this the other day). I think one of the men could be a convict or escaped prisoner and the other is somehow in charge of him - anyway I seem to remember that they are forced into each other’s company and begin by hating each other. There’s just one line of dialogue I remember - they are sitting in a bus, and one says to the other: "I have just two words to say to you: ‘shut the fuck up’ ". Quite understand if you can’t help… ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-film/204819/2 "2003-10-01T00:52:34Z")
[Midnight Run](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0095631/). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-film/204819/3 "2003-10-01T01:12:00Z")
That line of dialogue is one of my all-time favourites, along with “I don’t want to say anything over the phone. All I can say is; I killed her last night” from _Throw Momma From the Train_. In _Midnight Run_, Robert Deniro is a bounty hunter and has snagged fugitive Charles Grodin. Grodin claims to be afraid of flying and kicks up a major fuss, forcing their bus/train/automobile cross-country road trip. It’s amusing but familiar territory and the deus ex ending doesn’t help matters. ---
**Author:** ![mrsface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@mrsface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsface)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-film/204819/4 "2003-10-01T11:12:32Z")
This is it - many thanks to you both