Decent premises and the promise of Billy Crystal pale in a film that fronts up to, then whimpers away from, the prospect of leaping out of its genre's boundaries.
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This review of Running Scared (1986) was written by David Ansen and published by Newsweek on 20 Nov 2009.
Running Scared has generally received mixed reviews.
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