132. The Fugitive
The Fugitive (1993)
Director: Andrew Davis
Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano, Andreas Katsulas, Jeroen Krabbé
Synopsis: Despite insisting that they were both attacked by a one-armed man (Andreas Katsulas), Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) is accused and convicted of the murder of his wife, Helen (Sela Ward). On his way to prison, after somehow being inserted into a Michael Bay movie for one scene Richard manages to survive both a bus crash and a train-into-bus crash. He flees into the surrounding wilderness and becomes a…well, you know. The government sends in hot-shit U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) and his team of familiar-looking character actors to head up the manhunt for Dr. Kimble. As Gerard and his team close in on their target (like, multiple times), Richard is on a hunt of his own: a hunt for the truth. Through a series of costume changes, hospital sets, and conversations with recognizable actors in scrubs, Richard discovers the identity of the one-armed man and comes to realize that the murder victim was supposed to be him. Turns out, Richard’s research into an experimental drug was going to ruin his just-foreign-sounding-enough-to-be-suspect friend Dr. Nichols (Jeroen Krabbé) and the drug manufacturer’s chances of making a crap-ton of money. Thankfully, this story is a work of fiction, and we can all rest easy knowing that a pharmaceutical company would never knowingly harm its consumers in order to make a profit!
Bechdel-Wallace Pass? No
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The Episode
We recall The Fugitive (1993), an action-packed thriller starring Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, and so many other people you'd recognize. We discuss mustaches, the "L," and if orbs are the most lavish decoration.
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The Ratings
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The Trailer
Totes Regrets
Beth deeply regrets mixing up Richard Riehle with Don and Dan Stanton aka the “Zipper Twins.” But she does want to assert that Richard Riehle’s photo does in fact hang in the hall at the University of Minnesota’s theater department.
Richard Riehle’s photo at Rarig Center at the University of Minnesota