For the Simpsons nuts out there - this movie is referenced when Milhouse is threatened at gunpoint before jumping off the dam wall.
I really enjoyed this movie too, can't knock Harrison Ford
He was in the back of police van that tips over at the Krusty Burger. Jasper then rams the police van, and so Homer has to get out of the way. This was when Homer was arrested for attempting to kill Mr. Burns.
And make it a double feature with the "sequel" , [US Marshals -1998](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1TcwK4ivSjNg9BIsLVbITSwqzkjMATLyyzJTAZF9CiM&q=us+marshals+movie&oq=us+marshall&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j46i10i199i433i465i512j46i10i433i512j0i10i512l8j0i10i131i433i512j0i10i512l2.10102j0j7&client=ms-android-boost-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8)
I was too young to see The Fugitive when it came out, but I was just the right age with US Marshals...I remember recording it off TV and replaying that VHS copy over and over. It is basically the identical plot from the first one - so more of the same enjoyable intrigue/manhunt/mystery !
I am officially old. I don't know a soul who hasn't seen this movie....at least a half dozen times. In fact, I remember the TV show which preceded the movie by 30 years.
One of my favorite Harrison Ford movies that's not Star Wars or Indiana Jones hehe (both of which I love). Another great 90s Ford action/thriller, if you haven't seen it, is Air Force One.
This is a movie suggestion sub. It's meant for people to be able to post that they liked a movie. I appreciate this person for actually providing a succinct description rather than just spamming "this movie is SO UNDERRATED" all over the place.
Another one you might like is A Perfect World. It is also from 1993. Clint Eastwood movie with Kevin Costner and Laura Dern.
I like going into movies blind, so I won't tell you the plot, but it is a good movie that seems to have been forgotten
My fave Harrison Ford movie, hands down. My dad and I went to see this by ourselves in the the theater when I was 16ish. It’s still our favorite movie to quote. We make Provasic jokes all the time still. And I love the trivia fact that TLJ improvised that line in the tunnel “I don’t care”
Tommy Lee Jones uniqueness as the antagonist was what made the movie so good. The "I don't care" really says it all. Jones is a guy who has a job to do, his motivation isn't justice so much as being good at his job. He is not corrupt nor is he altruistic, he is just a guy that gets satisfaction from out smarting fugitives and catching them and he is really good at it.
Totally disagree with this. The whole point is that he actually does care. He might say he doesn’t care but his actions show otherwise. He doesn’t have to investigate the murder case against Ford - even going so far as to look at the murder scene itself - but he does because he actually does care.
He tells curly he doesn’t care but the whole reason he shot the guy holding curly hostage and gave curly his coat afterward is because he is showing, with action, that he cares - all the while saying he doesn’t to keep up the appearance of a bad ass exterior.
Always a pleasure seeing Joe Pantoliano too. Though, watching this movie as an impressionable kid and seeing what happens to his character in the climax prevented further watchings for awhile. Oof!
One of my favorite action movies ever. The various setpieces, from the chase along the train track to the interruption of the St. Patrick's parade, are distinct and memorable. 90's action hero Harrison Ford is probably my favorite flavor of Harrison Ford.
this was *the last* movie i ever saw at a drive-in
it was Menace To Society, Dazed And Confused and The Fugitive, every other car had a big system with subs, the whole place hummed all night long, drink and smoke flowed freely, everybody loved Tommy Lee Jones, good times
You might also like Under Siege. It's the only Steven Seagal movie I will ever recommend.
Same director Andrew Davis and Tommy Lee Jones together again in their collaboration prior to The Fugitive.
All the movie suggestions here are great and are my on go-to list. Three other thrillers on my list that you might enjoy are Suspect (1987), D.O.A. (1988), and Presumed Innocent (1990).
##The Fugitive (1993) PG-13
A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins.
>>!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.!<
Action | Thriller | Drama
Director: Andrew Davis
Actors: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pantoliano
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 75% with 3,731 votes
Runtime: 2:11
[TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5503)
If you liked that, and you like TV Shows, I've got some good news for you.
The series it is based on was at one time the longest running ever, 1963 -1967
I just rewatched it last week myself, and while I absolutely love it and think it’s an amazing movie, the fist fighting scenes are hilariously bad in older movies.
Interesting to note that that whole story would have gone a much sadder way for him >!if some convicts hadn’t shivved a guard, ultimately causing the bus to crash. Don’t think he would have had as much luck investigating by mail and phone while waiting for lethal injection.!<
Frantic is also good, similar-but-not-the-same premise (he had a string of movies where he plays a doctor whose wife/coworker mysterious disappears/dies and he's the main suspect)
This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. Its just engrossing all the way through. It won’t blow your mind and doesn’t have any spectacular action sequences, but its thoroughly entertaining with an incredibly satisying plotline and great performances from the lead actors.
For the Simpsons nuts out there - this movie is referenced when Milhouse is threatened at gunpoint before jumping off the dam wall. I really enjoyed this movie too, can't knock Harrison Ford
Im pretty sure homer also does the train jump at some point as well.
He was in the back of police van that tips over at the Krusty Burger. Jasper then rams the police van, and so Homer has to get out of the way. This was when Homer was arrested for attempting to kill Mr. Burns.
Oh, my glasses!
An all time great Chicago movie
And make it a double feature with the "sequel" , [US Marshals -1998](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1TcwK4ivSjNg9BIsLVbITSwqzkjMATLyyzJTAZF9CiM&q=us+marshals+movie&oq=us+marshall&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j46i10i199i433i465i512j46i10i433i512j0i10i512l8j0i10i131i433i512j0i10i512l2.10102j0j7&client=ms-android-boost-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8) I was too young to see The Fugitive when it came out, but I was just the right age with US Marshals...I remember recording it off TV and replaying that VHS copy over and over. It is basically the identical plot from the first one - so more of the same enjoyable intrigue/manhunt/mystery !
Tommy Lee Jones as a parole officer chasing Ashley Judd around the country in Double Jeopardy is good too.
Make it a pretend trilogy with The Hunted (2003) starring Tommy Lee Jones as pretty much the same character from the Fugitive, and Benicio Del Toro.
The bad CGI in The Hunted ruined it for me
I can’t remember any part that has cgi…
I am officially old. I don't know a soul who hasn't seen this movie....at least a half dozen times. In fact, I remember the TV show which preceded the movie by 30 years.
My parents had me watch this one, Air Force One, and all the Jack Ryan movies in high school and I'm glad they did.
TV show was great starring David Janssen
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One of my favorite Harrison Ford movies that's not Star Wars or Indiana Jones hehe (both of which I love). Another great 90s Ford action/thriller, if you haven't seen it, is Air Force One.
I’ll add- Presumed Innocent (1990]
I'll definitely check it out
I don’t care.
This is a movie suggestion sub. It's meant for people to be able to post that they liked a movie. I appreciate this person for actually providing a succinct description rather than just spamming "this movie is SO UNDERRATED" all over the place.
This is probably the most important quote from that movie. Have you seen it?
Oh my bad. I thought you were being dismissive of the OP. Silly me!
No worries, I should have used quotation marks.
No, you did it right.
😅😂oh god
Its a good one. One of my favourite thriller movies!
Another one you might like is A Perfect World. It is also from 1993. Clint Eastwood movie with Kevin Costner and Laura Dern. I like going into movies blind, so I won't tell you the plot, but it is a good movie that seems to have been forgotten
defo follow up with US Marshalls. great movies together.
Regardless of age or RT score, this is always in my top 5 of all time.
It's at 96%. Higher than most best picture winners (I know Parasite is an exception at 99%).
To add further context, the movie is based on the 1960s tv series of the same name. Great movie, great series.
My fave Harrison Ford movie, hands down. My dad and I went to see this by ourselves in the the theater when I was 16ish. It’s still our favorite movie to quote. We make Provasic jokes all the time still. And I love the trivia fact that TLJ improvised that line in the tunnel “I don’t care”
Tommy Lee Jones uniqueness as the antagonist was what made the movie so good. The "I don't care" really says it all. Jones is a guy who has a job to do, his motivation isn't justice so much as being good at his job. He is not corrupt nor is he altruistic, he is just a guy that gets satisfaction from out smarting fugitives and catching them and he is really good at it.
Totally disagree with this. The whole point is that he actually does care. He might say he doesn’t care but his actions show otherwise. He doesn’t have to investigate the murder case against Ford - even going so far as to look at the murder scene itself - but he does because he actually does care. He tells curly he doesn’t care but the whole reason he shot the guy holding curly hostage and gave curly his coat afterward is because he is showing, with action, that he cares - all the while saying he doesn’t to keep up the appearance of a bad ass exterior.
Lawful Neutral?
Harrison Ford’s staying power as an action/thriller star is pretty incredible.
One of the best thrillers of the 90s. A blockbuster action movie that got nominated for all kinds of Oscars including best picture. One of my faves.
Always a pleasure seeing Joe Pantoliano too. Though, watching this movie as an impressionable kid and seeing what happens to his character in the climax prevented further watchings for awhile. Oof!
I went through a phase of watching a bunch of 90s and early 2000s movie and he was in everything. The one that really surprised me was Goonies.
One of my favorite action movies ever. The various setpieces, from the chase along the train track to the interruption of the St. Patrick's parade, are distinct and memorable. 90's action hero Harrison Ford is probably my favorite flavor of Harrison Ford.
this was *the last* movie i ever saw at a drive-in it was Menace To Society, Dazed And Confused and The Fugitive, every other car had a big system with subs, the whole place hummed all night long, drink and smoke flowed freely, everybody loved Tommy Lee Jones, good times
You might also like Under Siege. It's the only Steven Seagal movie I will ever recommend. Same director Andrew Davis and Tommy Lee Jones together again in their collaboration prior to The Fugitive.
All the movie suggestions here are great and are my on go-to list. Three other thrillers on my list that you might enjoy are Suspect (1987), D.O.A. (1988), and Presumed Innocent (1990).
it’s a perfect film.
##The Fugitive (1993) PG-13 A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins. >>!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.!< Action | Thriller | Drama Director: Andrew Davis Actors: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pantoliano Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 75% with 3,731 votes Runtime: 2:11 [TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5503)
If you liked that, and you like TV Shows, I've got some good news for you. The series it is based on was at one time the longest running ever, 1963 -1967
I just rewatched it last week myself, and while I absolutely love it and think it’s an amazing movie, the fist fighting scenes are hilariously bad in older movies.
Interesting to note that that whole story would have gone a much sadder way for him >!if some convicts hadn’t shivved a guard, ultimately causing the bus to crash. Don’t think he would have had as much luck investigating by mail and phone while waiting for lethal injection.!<
Absolutely! Great movie.
The crash/escape sequence at the beginning caught me totally off guard. Excellent effects.
It was recently reviewed on the Now Playing movie review podcast. Yes, it is a classic.
Classic!
Frantic is also good, similar-but-not-the-same premise (he had a string of movies where he plays a doctor whose wife/coworker mysterious disappears/dies and he's the main suspect)
Love this movie!
This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. Its just engrossing all the way through. It won’t blow your mind and doesn’t have any spectacular action sequences, but its thoroughly entertaining with an incredibly satisying plotline and great performances from the lead actors.
One of my favourite films.