The Fugitive 1993

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September 29, 2007

Plot SynopsisRichard Kimble (Harrison Ford) is a successful , University of Chicago-trained, Chicago based vascular surgeon who returns home from an operation after a party one evening to find his wife (Sela Ward) dying following a brutal attack and a mysterious one-armed man with a prosthetic arm escaping. Despite his attempts to save her and his testimony about the one-armed man, Kimble is convicted of first-degree murder, due to evidence such as a misunderstood 9-1-1 call, his fingerprints found “on the lamp, the gun, and the bullets,” and no signs of forced entry by the one-armed man. Kimble is sentenced to death by lethal injection. While being transported to prison by bus, one prisoner fakes a seizure, pretending to be choking. One of the guards unlocks the gate separating him from the prisoner to assist him. The prisoner stabs him with a concealed sharpened toothbrush, and chaos ensues inside. Another guard shoots the prisoner with a shotgun, but in a struggle with another prisoner he accidentally shoots the driver. The bus crashes through a guardrail, rolls down a hill, and lands on a set of train tracks. The light from an approaching train appears, and Kimble manages to pull himself and the stabbed guard to safety before train rams the bus. He is freed from his chains by another prisoner, then flees the scene on foot. As a fugitive from justice, he becomes the quarry of Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), who leads a team of man-hunters from the US Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force. There are many close calls where Richard almost gets captured, mostly brought on by Kimble’s compassionate instincts as a doctor. The first instance is at a hospital after Kimble shaves off his beard, and changes into a doctor’s uniform. He sees one of the corrections officers wounded in the revolt and helps the man, who recognizes him, as he is being brought into the hospital. Kimble tries to escape by stealing an ambulance but is forced to a halt by a police road block in a tunnel in a dam. He exits the ambulance and is pursued by Gerard through the dam’s drainage system. At one point, Kimble confronts Gerard and insists on his innocence. Gerard, whose mission is simply to capture Kimble and not to solve the crime, tells him “I don’t care.” Kimble tries to continue running but Gerard eventually traps him near the end of a spillway. Kimble escapes by leaping a great height down the spillway of the dam into the river below. View the rest here

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