This
1993 box-office smash partly adheres to the 1960s TV series on which
it is based and partly goes off on several tangents of its own. Harrison
Ford stars as Dr. Richard Kimble, convicted of murdering his wife. While
being transferred to prison by bus, Kimble is involved in a spectacular
bus-train collision (one of the best of its kind ever filmed). Surviving
the disaster, Kimble escapes, vowing to track down the elusive professional
criminal whom he holds responsible for the murder. Dogging the Fugitive
every foot of the way is U.S. marshal Sam Gerard (an Oscar-winning turn
by Tommy Lee Jones), who publicly announces his intention to search
"every whorehouse, doghouse, and outhouse" to bring Kimble to justice.
Unlike his dour TV-series counterpart Barry Morse, Jones plays the role
with a sardonic sense of humor: when a cornered Kimble screams, "I didn't
kill my wife," Gerard shrugs and famously replies, "I don't care." Once
the premise has been established, scripters Jeb Stuart and David Twohy
and director Andrew Davis pull off several audacious plot twists, ranging
from Kimble's rendezvous with a sympathetic lab technician to a jaw-dropping
dive into a huge waterfall. The second half of the film offers one surprise
after another (including the true identity of the murderer), brilliantly
avoiding the letdown that plagues many movie adaptations of old TV series.
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