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The Running Man is a 1987 American dystopian action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura. The film is set in a dystopian United States between 2017 and 2019, featuring a television show where convicted criminal "runners" must escape death ...
- $27 million
- Harold Faltermeyer
- November 13, 1987 (United States)
Nov 13, 1987 · A falsely convicted policeman must run for his life in a TV game show where he faces killers in a dystopian America. IMDb provides cast and crew, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this movie based on a Stephen King novel.
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- Paul Michael Glaser
- R
- Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The Running Man is a dystopian thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the omnibus The Bachman Books. The novel is set in a dystopian United States during the year 2025, in which the nation's economy is in ruins and world ...
- Stephen King
- 219
- 1982
- Science fiction
Find out who starred in the sci-fi action movie The Running Man, based on Stephen King's novel. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
Synopsis In the year 2019, America is a totalitarian state where the favorite television program is "The Running Man" -- a game show in which prisoners must run to freedom to avoid a brutal...
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- Paul Michael Glaser
- R
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
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A dystopian action thriller about a falsely convicted policeman who escapes from prison and joins a resistance movement against a brutal police state. He must also survive a deadly TV game show where he is hunted by killers and stalkers.
Nov 13, 1987 · Based on a novel by Stephen King, The Running Man is a 1987 sci-fi action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It depicts a dystopian future where people risk their lives for a chance to win a billion dollars on a reality TV show.
