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The Rundown (2003)

The Rundown poster
Directed by
Peter Berg
Genre
action film, adventure film, buddy film, buddy cop film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 2,203 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A debt collector who wants to become a chef goes to Brazil to bring back his boss's son. The son is searching for a lost artifact in the jungle.

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What happens

The Rundown is a 2003 American action comedy film directed by Peter Berg and written by James Vanderbilt and R.J. Stewart from a story by Stewart. It follows an aspiring chef working as a debt collector for a loan shark who is tasked with retrieving the loan shark's son, who went to Brazil to search for a lost artifact. The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken and Rosario Dawson. The film was released by Universal Pictures in the United States, Canada and Japan and by Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International under the Columbia Pictures label internationally on September 26, 2003. It received positive reviews but was a box office failure, grossing $80.9 million on an $85 million budget, though it has made an cult following in the years since. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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