Martin Brest · 1988 · road
Martin Brest's 1988 action comedy. Bounty hunter Jack Walsh has five days to deliver a mob accountant who jumped bail from New York to Los Angeles - but the Duke refuses to fly, so the two of them grind across the country by train, bus, and car, hunted by the FBI and the mob, an odd friendship forming mile by mile.
- 1New York
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh collars the accountant who skipped bail after robbing the mob, and must get him to LA in five days.
- 2Chicago
Because the Duke refuses to fly, they go by train and worse, the FBI and the mob both closing in.
- 3The Arizona Desert
Across the country by every means, brawling and bickering, the bounty hunter and his prisoner slowly become something like friends.
- 4Los Angeles
They reach LA, where Walsh must choose between the bounty he needs and the man he has come to like.