RNarrow Margin

Popularity

IMDB (11,005 votes)

Meta Score

Rotten Tomatoes

500M
500M
Play Time: 97 mins
Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Narrow Margin

Overview:
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.

Status: Released (1990-09-21)
Awards:1 nomination total
BoxOffice:$10,873,237
Screen:Peter Hyams, Earl Felton, Martin Goldsmith
Productions: Carolco Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
Narrow Margin
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Reviews

John Chard

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Narrow Margins and Wide Loads. Director and writer Peter Hyams took the bold decision to reimage one of the best film noir crime pictures of the 1950s, and all things considered it’s not half bad. Without getting close to the greatness of Richard Fleischer’s 1952 claustrophobic su ....

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JPV852

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Second time watching this and still a solid thriller with a great finale that, save for one shot, looked practical which was great and today would've been done with visual effects. Good performances from Hackman and Archer and at only 94-minutes, a quick but entertaining way to spend ....

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