Product Description
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Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell star in this hilarious,
non-stop action-packed comedy costarring Bradley Cooper, Kristin
Chenoweth and Tom Arnold. A nice guy with a questionable past,
Charlie Bronson (Shepard), risks everything when he busts out of
a witness protection program to drive his girlfriend (Bell) to
Los Angeles for the job rtunity of a lifetime. Their road
trip grows awkwardly complicated, however, when they’re chased by
an inept fed (Arnold) and Charlie’s ex-pal (Cooper), a
vengeance-crazed criminal he helped put behind bars. Hit & Run is
a high-speed race to the finish where the brakes are off and the
chase is on.
Bonus Content:
* Deleted Scenes
* Street Legal
* Run and
* Love on the Run
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Charles Bronson is alive and well and living in
Nowheresville, California. No, not the '70s action hero; this
Charles Bronson is a former bank robber wheelman who ratted out
his gang and is living under the assumed name in the Federal
Witness Protection Program. He goes by Charlie, and played by the
goofy, buffed-out Dax Shepard he makes a charming everyman hero
in the amusing and adventurous action comedy Hit & Run. Shepard
also wrote the script and codirected what was obviously a labor
of love (his real-life partner Kristen Bell plays his onscreen
girlfriend), and he shows some genuine chops as a wrangler of
rapid-fire witty dialogue as well as car-chase action
choreography. Charlie's brainy girlfriend Annie teaches at the
local college and knows nothing about his past life, which belies
an odd lack of curiosity. But no matter, they seem like the
happiest couple on earth, and their scenes together crackle with
a witty and realistic edge that shows true chemistry from their
real-life relationship. When Annie needs to get to Los Angeles
for an important job interview, Charlie uncovers the muscle car
he's been hiding in the barn and offers to get her there in a
flash, even though it may mean uncovering his secret life in the
process. Oh boy, does it ever. Not only does Annie get all the
dirty details of his past as a bank robber, so does the angry
gang he fingered. Thus begins a road race that has elements of
Smokey and the Bandit, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and The
Hangover. Bradley Cooper pulls a broad turn against type as a
dreadlocked gangster who used to be Charlie's best friend, before
their last job went bad and someone got killed (hence Charlie's
dime-dropping testimony). Chasing Charlie becomes the bad guys'
obsession and the bulk of the movie becomes a road race toward
several moments of truth. There's a wry, free-form tone in the
script that feels like it involved a lot of improv in the quick
comic banter. That's countered by some remarkable stunt work in
the fast and furious car chases (starring an array of beautiful,
fetishized racing machines). In addition to Shepard, Bell, and
Cooper, the cast includes Tom Arnold as the dimwitted US Marshal
assigned to look after Charlie, and Michael Rosenbaum
(Smallville's Lex Luthor) as Annie's suspiciously uptight
ex-boyfriend. They both add considerable dramedic and automotive
weight to the cleverly contrived plot. Several extended cameos
from Beau Bridges, Kristin Chenoweth, and David Koechner enliven
the comedy while also advancing the narrative in this unusually
refreshing combination of freestyle comedy and action. --Ted Fry