This 1993 crime thriller, featuring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, is a strong entry in the genre. The film draws from a television series that aired three decades prior, presenting Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, who finds himself wrongly accused of murder and on the run. He’s relentlessly pursued by a U.S. Marshal, portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones, while simultaneously trying to uncover the truth about the one-armed killer responsible and those who set him up. The chase takes them from remote areas to Chicago's urban landscape. The initial portion of the movie, roughly the first forty minutes, is particularly gripping, immediately drawing in viewers with a spectacular bus crash/train wreck combination and an outstanding scene at a dam. What follows is a clever and tense game of pursuit as Kimble gets closer to exposing those who orchestrated his predicament and their motives. "The Fugitive" earned its success at the box office; it was made on a budget of $40 million, ultimately grossing $369 million worldwide, with $184 million coming from domestic sales. If you want to see how difficult that is to replicate, consider watching the 1998 sequel, "U.S. Marshals," which uses a similar storyline but lacks much of what made the original so effective. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 10 minutes and was filmed in Illinois and North Carolina—the dam sequence, for example, was shot at Cheoah Dam in Tapoco, North Carolina. GRADE: A-

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