The Fugitive [HD DVD] | ![The Fugitive [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51haPFAzAEL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Andrew Davis
Actors: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore, Joe Pantoliano
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  218 reviews
Sales Rank: 23296
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 5.2 x 0.5
MPN: HD80957
UPC: 012569809574
EAN: 0012569809574
ASIN: B000FKO0Q0
Theatrical Release Date: August 6, 1993
Release Date: May 23, 2006
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This highly entertaining update of the 1960s television series stars Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, a man wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife, and Tommy Lee Jones as the federal marshal who pursues him after Kimble escapes during a train wreck. Director Andrew Davis (Under Siege) oversees some dazzling stunts and effects: the train accident alone makes the film worth seeing. But the real draw is the film's complement of strong personalities in Ford and Jones, each playing intrepid characters out to get their man. This is one of those rare films where everything completely clicks. The DVD release includes optional full-screen and widescreen presentations, cast bios, Dolby sound, optional French soundtrack, and optional French, Spanish, or English subtitles. --Tom Keogh
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Do you know anyone who hasn't seen this movie? A box-office smash when released in 1993, this spectacular update of the popular 1960s TV series stars Harrison Ford as a surgeon wrongly accused of the murder of his wife. He escapes from a prison transport bus (in one of the most spectacular stunt-action sequences ever filmed) and embarks on a frantic quest for the true killer's identity, while a tenacious U.S. marshal (Tommy Lee Jones, in an Oscar-winning role) remains hot on his trail. Director Andrew Davis hit the big time with this expert display of polished style and escalating suspense, but it's the antagonistic chemistry between Jones and Ford that keeps this thriller cooking to the very end. In roles that seem custom-fit to their screen personas, the two stars maintain a sharply human focus to the grand-scale manhunt, and the intelligent screenplay never resorts to convenient escapes or narrative shortcuts. Equally effective as a thriller and a character study, this is a Hollywood blockbuster that truly deserves its ongoing popularity. --Jeff Shannon
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Warner Brothers The Fugitive - HD DVD
Catch him if you can. TheFugitive is on the run! Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones race through the breathless manhunt moviebased on the classic TV series. Ford is prison escapee Dr. Richard Kimble, a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to theone-armed man who actually committed the crime. Jones (1993 Academy Award and Golden Globe winner as Best Supporting Actor) is Sam Gerard, an unrelenting bloodhound of a U.S. Marshal. They are huntedand hunter. And as directed by Andrew Davis (Under Siege), their nonstop chase has one exhilaratingspeed: all-out. So catch him if you can. And catch an 11-on-a-scale-of-10 train wreck (yes, the train is real), a plunge down a waterfall, a cat-and-mouse jaunt through a Chicago St. Patrick's Day parade and much more. Better hurry. Kimble doesn't stay in one place very long!
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 Exciting film gets merely average blu-ray transfer January 19, 2010
K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States)
4.6 stars
I love this flick, and think both the script and Ford do justice to the original, justifiably beloved tv series. I don't think this blu-ray transfer does much justice to the original print, though; while it's a good, crisp picture, it's not much of an improvement over my dvd.
The film itself is an excellent adaptation of the series, and the Big Pharma conspiracy angle is an excellent updating that works well. There's thrills aplenty, with minimal violence, which I appreciate more every year as idiot directors and writers rely on guns and blood to fill the holes in their ill-planned plots. There's more intelligence than that at work here, and director Andrew Davis makes it all mesh tightly and suspensefully. The ending is a bit weak: I don't buy the scene at the conference, but it works to the degree it must, and that's good enough.
Add Ford and Jones at the top of their games and it's a movie worth watching many times, whenever one needs to be reminded what a truly fine thriller can be.
Too bad they didn't polish it up enough for it to be a blu-ray worthy of the description high-def.
The perfect "runaway" box office hit! January 8, 2010
R. Baxter Shipman (North Carolina)
So far this is the best and most exciting adaptation of a TV show to hit the big screen. Watching this when it came out in the theater kept you on the edge of your seat and is truly a classic.
A Chicago doctor, Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), is wrongly accused of murdering his wife. He is relentlessly pursued by Deputy Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones). Doing what he does best, Ford delivers another solid performance.
"The Fugitive" is a must-own for any DVD collection. The drama, action, suspense and wit made this one of the most popular movies of 1993!
 An abysmal transfer of an excellent movie October 7, 2009
Darren Harrison (Washington D.C.)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The movie itself is a 5-star movie but I can only give this release three stars because of the simply horrid transfer afforded it. Until Amazon comes up with a different rating system that allows us to grade the technical quality of the product (transfer etc) and the product itself (the movie) I have to give it a lower score than the movie deserves.
The movie features Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, a man falsely accused of the murder of his wife. Escaping from captivity a manhunt is launched for Kimble, led by U.S. Marshall Samuel Gerard (played in an Oscar winning performamce by Tommy Lee Jones). The ensuing action details Kimble's attempts to clear his name, all the while trying to evade his pursuers. Director Andrew Davis crafts a taught and exciting movie and delivers what is one of the best movies of the 1990s. But for all the movie does right Warner have seen fit to deliver it to Blu-ray in a transfer that is at times painful to watch with a soft and undefined image that contains large amounts of grain and is overall dull with a lack of detail. The Blu-ray fares somewhat better in the audio department however with a very active, if average by todays standards, track. Where Warner does deserve high marks is inclusion of all of the special features from the Special Edition DVD including a feature-length commentary track with Davis and Tommy Lee Jones that contains a lot of good information despite some long pauses. There os also a smattering of featurettes.
Overall a disappointing presentation of an exceptional movie. Here is hoping that Warner revisits this title soon
Why even waste energy pretending you don't love it? August 12, 2009
E. Kutinsky (Seattle, WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let me be honest with you. I'm 27 years old, I like to drink and smoke and hang out with my friends, and I could not wait to buy The Fugitive last week. It was 1 cent used on Amazon and that made me so happy. You can go through a million movies and TV shows in which someone false gets accused of a crime, but what you'll ultimately think of as your barometer for that sort of thing is The Fugitive. It remains so exciting, tense, such a hair's breath away from total discovery. It gets you so extraordinarily invested in the justice-demands-it plot of Harrison Ford's wrongly accused Dr. Kimball as it does Tommy Lee Jones's Agent Gerard. I've liked a lot of strange foreign, indie, "old" movies over the years, but if I had a couple hours to spend on a cold day, I'd probably spend them with The Fugitive, caring about everyone, being pushed along bold storytelling momentum, stuck desperately wishing for justice and luck to work out just a minute longer for Sam Kimball - at least I'd know I'd be in good company.
One of the best man hunt films ever! June 11, 2009
D. Wiley
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Harrison Ford is suburb and Tommy is true to form. Great story line. All the actors worked well together and transition even makes its way to Tommy's character.
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