Synopsis
Oscar, a young boy, commits a noble murder and is forced to runaway from his rural hometown, leaving behind his best friend, Loux. He escapes to the nearest city, where he is inducted into a gang of child street thieves. His innocence slips away as he is introduced to love, murder, and corruption. 15 years later, he has forgotten his past and become the leader of this band of lost children. When Loux moves to the city in search of work, she takes a job with a struggling private investigator. Stumbling upon Oscar's missing child report, she takes it upon herself to find the boy who saved her life.
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Cast
- Ron PerlmanBirdie
- Michael PittOscar
- William ForsytheAugustus
- Mark Boone JuniorSway
- Kylie RogersYoung Peaches
- Isiah Whitlock Jr.Lester
- Renée WillettKeryn
- Dree HemingwayPeaches
- Brad CarterPersey
- SlaineFlannery
Recommendations
- 50
Movie Nation
Run with the Hunted kind of rattles around like a racoon confined in a tiger cage. The milieu and characters are here, with “Lost Boys” references that don’t really hide the “Oliver Twist” structure. The “twists” in this “Oliver” are entirely predictable, including the finale. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The film boasts pungent atmosphere, as well as hard-hitting performances by leading man Michael Pitt and such reliably good character actors as Ron Perlman and Isiah Whitlock Jr. Unfortunately, the promising elements never coalesce into a satisfying or engrossing whole. - 40
Film Threat
On all accounts, filmmaker John Swab’s gratuitous and grave Run with the Hunted fails to live up to the promise of its premise. Instead, it comes off as a lunkheaded exercise in self-aggrandizing mental masturbation. - 38
Slant Magazine
Some of the film’s narrative threads are frustratingly unresolved, while others are wrapped up in arbitrary fashion. - 38
RogerEbert.com
Irritating film.
