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The Runner takes the real-life situation of the 2010 BP oil spill, and stars Nicolas Cage as Colin Price, an idealistic but flawed politician, who is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
The film also stars Connie Nielsen, Sarah Paulson, plus legend Peter Fonda, and The Wire‘s Wendell Pierce (aka Bunk), and is written and directed by Austin Stark.
It sounds okayish, but nothing more than a TV movie of the week and certainly nothing to rush to the cinema to see. However, given the number of films Cage makes, he’ll do some great ones but also a fair number of stinkers.
The Runner is out in the US on August 7th, but doesn’t yet have a UK release date.
Check out the trailer below and click on the poster for the full-size image:
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