I am compiling a list of scenes in movies where someone gets mugged. TV show episodes are OK, too, but I am especially looking for movies.
Also, I am looking for an actual shot of someone being mugged, not a scene where someone describes having been mugged.
I’ll start it off with Crocodile Dundee. (“That’s not a knife…”)
…And 15 minutes before someone posts Sylvester Stallone in 1971.
No surprise, it was also easy to find the scene before, where the protagonist soon purchases the NSFW research materials: [spoiler]- YouTube
Which reminds me of Jeff Goldblum (Jeff Goldblum!) in Death Wish.
Lois and Clark get mugged in Superman: the Movie.
Oh yeah. Found it.
Batman (the family at the start, and Bruce’s parents in flashback)
John Belushi gets mugged in Continental Divide, then beaten up by the cops.
Jack Lemmon and Ann Meara get mugged in The Out of Towners.
Steve Martin gets mugged (and shot) in Grand Canyon.
He also gets mugged, very perfunctorily, in LA Story.
The Out Of Towners was the first thing I thought of. But that was Sandy Dennis, right?
Ghost, Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.
You said TV shows are ok and Seinfeld has a few.
Kramer and George stage a fake mugging for the benefit of a busful of tourists.
Kramer gets mugged for an armoire he is guarding and in the finale, the gang observes a mugging but doesn’t intervene.
Roger and Joan get mugged on Mad Men. Then they have sex.
First movie I thought of was
The Brave One, with Jodie Foster.
Also,
Marathon Man, with Dustin Hoffman
Of course. I’ve only seen the movie once, and when I saw Ann Meara in the credits, lazily ‘remembered’ that she played Lemmon’s wife.
Mea culpa.
Does a stage coach holdup count as a mugging? Because that adds about 3 zillion ‘muggings’ to the count.
here he is again in 2 minute execution of a 15 second gag (punchline not included, but you know it anyway)
The 2002 remake of The Time Machine (the one with Guy Pearce).
Also, Times Square (kind of a cult movie from 1980).
The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue - Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft are a middle-class, middle-age couple struggling to contend with the rampant degeneration of NYC.
Since this is a 40 year old movie that’s barely remembered anymore, I’ll forego the spoilers but - Jack Lemmon is exiting the train station when he bumps into a guy. They start to walk away from each other, bu then Lemmon notices his wallet is missing! Thinking that the guy who bumped into him was a pickpocket, he runs after him. The other guy sees him coming and flees. A chase scene ensues through Central Park until Lemmon finally tackles the guy, throwing him to the ground and shouts “HAND OVER THE WALLET!” The ‘pickpocket’ thrusts a wallet in his hand and runs away.
Once he’s home, Lemmon is about to happily gush to his wife (Bancroft) about how he took a stand and fought back against crime and how he refused to be a victim, but - his wife informs him he left his wallet at home that day! Lemmon sheepishly looks at the wallet in his hand and realizes…
Lemmon: Oh my God. I just mugged a man.
Attack The Block. Vile piece of trash, a gang of youths - led by John Boyega, soon to be seen in the new Star Wars - terrify a lone and helpless woman and rob her at knifepoint, and the movie takes their side. I think that film might have permanently soured me on Boyega.
Woody Allen becomes a criminal, and mugging is shown in Take the Money and Run.
A gang of street punks possessed of matching outfits but not of tactical sense jump Dan and Laurie in Watchmen. It doesn’t go well for them.
An attempted mugging on Mrs. Doubtfire.