Running Scared
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Peter Hyams
Gregory Hines
Billy Crystal
Steven Bauer
Darlanne Fluegel
Joe Pantoliano
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Danny (BillyCrystal) and Ray (Gregory Hines) are two street wise cops in Chicago. When they are almost killed on a case, they are forced to take a vacation by their captain. Key West offers a substantial change over frozen Chicago. They decide to quit and open a bar in Key West. Upon returning, they find that Julio (Jimmy Smits), the drug dealer who nearly killed them has made bail and is trying to complete a giant drug deal. They decide to complete their case against Julio before quitting, but then begin being careful. Their effectiveness drops as they find they can't operate the way they did before if they don't have the edge of a long time commitment.
Director
Peter Hyams
Cast
Gregory Hines
Billy Crystal
Steven Bauer
Darlanne Fluegel
Joe Pantoliano
Dan Hedaya
Jon Gries
Tracy Reed
Jimmy Smits
John Disanti
Larry Hankin
Don Calfa
Robert Lesser
Betty Carvalho
Louis Perez
Ron Cummins
Natividad Rios Kearsley
John Lamotta
Richard Kuss
Jeff Silverman
Dax Brooks
Jaime Alba
Meg Register
Deborah Johnson
Fred Buch
Ricardo Guiterrez
Frankie Davila
Ernest Perry
Etel Billig
James Noah
Bob Zrna
Deanna Dunagan
Joe Guastaferro
Mike Bacarella
Johnny O'donnell
Richard Wharton
Tony Zurita
Saralynne Crittenden
Jim Ortlieb
Julian Pena
Alex Leonard Jenkins
William Lozada
Irma O'quendo
Charles D Scholvin
Joel Becker
Larry Williams
Wells Christie
Larry Williams
Julian Pena
Larry Williams
Crew
Randle Akerson
John Baron
David Blitstein
Joanie Blume
Sugar-ginger Blymyer
Megan Branman
Albert Brenner
Gene S Cantamessa
Ken Carlson
Wells Christie
Wells Christie
Bill Couch
Norval Crutcher
Cliff Cudney
Gary De Vore
Gary De Vore
Gary De Vore
Carlos Delarios
Deborah Dell'amico
Dee Diller
Michael Dobie
Gregg Elam
Bud Ellison
Jim Flamberg
Jim Flamberg
David Foster
Tommy Funderburk
George Gaines
Ralph Gerling
Lee Harman
Udi Harpaz
Jerry Hey
Michael Hoffman
Doug Hubbard
Jimmy Huston
Peter Hyams
Peter Hyams
Peter Hyams
Trevor Jolly
Steven Jongeward
Robert Kaiser
Randy Kerber
Artie Ray Kimble
Michael J Kohut
Patti Labelle
Don Levy
Carey Loftin
Joanna C. Lovetti
Aggie Lyon
C J Maguire
Tom May
Michael Mcdonald
Henry E Millar
James D. Mitchell
Ken Morrisey
Kathy Nelson
Alan Nineberg
Aaron Pazanti
Christine Perren
Frederick Perren
Penny Perry
Aldric Porter
Howie Rice
Aaron Rochin
Dick Rudolph
Dick Rudolph
Rick Sawaya
Danny Sembello
Howard Small
Donnell Spencer Jr.
Michael Stone
Bruce Swedien
Bruce Swedien
Rod Temperton
Rod Temperton
Rod Temperton
Jack Terry
Lawrence Turman
Jim Van Wyck
Stephen Vaughan
Fee Waybill
Michael Wheeler
Kay H Whipple
Kim Wilde
Larry Williams
Larry Williams
Larry Williams
Larry Williams
Larry Williams
Larry Williams
Ric Wyatt
Jonathan A Zimbert
Deborah Zimmerman
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Gregory Hines, 1946-2003
Born Gregory Oliver Hines on February 14, 1946, in New York City, he began taking dance lessons at age three and by the time he was six he and his brother Maurice were performing jazz tap at Harlem's Apollo Theater. By 1954, Hines was already on Broadway when he joined the cast of the Broadway musical The Girl in Pink Tights. He then spent the next 20 years perfecting the craft and art of tap dancing as he toured with his brother and father Maurice Sr. in a nightclub circuit act called "Hines, Hines and Dad", before he left in 1973 to form a rock band called Severance in Southern California.
Itching to put his dancing shoes on again, Hines made it back to New York a few years later and in 1978, scored his first Broadway success with Eubie, and earned a Tony nomination. With his vitality, charm and grace, Hines became one of the leading lights on Broadway for the next few years, as exemplified by two more Broadway hits in Comin' Uptown (1980) and Sophisticated Ladies (1981), for which he received two more Tony nominations for his performances.
His charismatic presence made him natural for films, and he notched his first film role as a last minute replacement for Richard Pryor in Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I (1981), where he immediately displayed his sharp comic abilities. Other solid roles followed over the next decade: an unorthodox coroner in Michael Wadleigh's urban thriller Wolfen (1981); a nightclub dancer in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984); an American defector to the Soviet Union in Taylor Hackford's overheated melodrama White Nights (1985); a wise-cracking cop in Peter Hyam's Running Scared (1986), and as the fast-talking con artist Goldy in Bill Duke's underrated A Rage in Harlem (1991).
He returned to Broadway in 1992 for his biggest triumph, a portrayal of Jelly Roll Morton, the famed jazz composer, in Jelly's Last Jam and earned a Tony Award in the process. A few more film appearances came in the '90's, most memorably in Forest Whitaker's Waiting to Exhale (1995), but Hines found a new lease on his career when he appeared on the small screen. He played a single father in a fine, if short-lived sitcom The Gregory Hines Show (1997-98); was popular as Ben Doucette, a love interest for Grace in the hugely popular show Will & Grace for two seasons (1999-2001); and received strong critical notice for his moving take as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the television film Bojangles (2001) that he also produced. His last televised appearance was in June 2002, when he co-hosted the Tony Awards with Bernadette Peters. In addition to his father and brother, he is survived by his fiancee Negrita Jayde; a daughter, Daria Hines; a son, Zach; a stepdaughter, Jessica Koslow; and a grandson.
by Michael T. Toole
Gregory Hines, 1946-2003
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Released in United States June 27, 1986
Released in United States Summer July 27, 1986
Released in USA on video.
Began shooting September 16, 1985.
Completed shooting January 1986.
Released in United States June 27, 1986
Released in United States Summer July 27, 1986