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©1987
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1987
Based on the novel by Richard Bachman
Los Angeles in the year 2017 has become a police state in the wake of the global economy's total collapse. In 2019 The Running Man is the top-rated TV show, where condemned criminals are given a chance for freedom by running through a gauntlet of heavily armed killers known as Stalkers. Ben Richards, an ex-cop wrongly convicted of the massacre of unarmed civilians, must try and survive the Stalkers
Special features: New 2012 commentary soundtrack with director Paul Michael Glaser
Director of photography, Thomas Del Ruth ; editors, Mark Roy Warner, Edward A. Warschika, John Wright ; music, Harold Faltermeyer, Mick Fleetwood
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura, Erland van Lidth, Richard Dawson
MPAA rating: R
DVD, region 1; anamorphic widescreen presentation
Closed-captioned