Narrow Margin

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Action Thriller Crime Mystery

It will take you to the edge of suspense.

Director: Peter Hyams

Writer: Peter Hyams

Producer: Jonathan A. Zimbert

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.

97 min Rating: 6.4/10 Released
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Top Cast

Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman
 Robert Caulfield
Anne Archer
Anne Archer
 Carol Hunnicut
James B. Sikking
James B. Sikking
 Nelson
Harris Yulin
Harris Yulin
 Leo Watts
J. T. Walsh
J. T. Walsh
 Michael Tarlow
M. Emmet Walsh
M. Emmet Walsh
 Sergeant Dominick Benti

Movie Info

Director: Peter Hyams

Writer: Peter Hyams

Producer: Jonathan A. Zimbert

Production Companies: Carolco Pictures

Countries: United States of America

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John Chard: 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 suspenser that is. Having Gene Hackman and Anne Archer heading up your two principal characters is a good foundation. As the district attorney employee and witness to a mob killing respectively, both actors come up trumps for their director as they are thrust into a game of cat and mouse aboard a speeding train. As the Canadian wilderness outside the train’s windows soothes the eyes, the cramped interiors make for good suspense as Hackman plays the calm to Archer’s panic. There’s nothing new here in terms of thriller conventions, and the pitfalls and familiarity of the plot’s ideas keep it from hitting better heights: people still do dumb things – important details are all too quickly swept aside – laws of gravity non existent and etc. But refreshingly Hyams resists the chance to insert a cloying romance, while his staging of suspense scenes are very well handled. But of course he’s got Hackman being as cool as a cucumber. 6.5/10