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1988 | Charles
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1989
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1989
Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture Leading Role | 1989 | Robert De
Best Film | 1988 | Martin
Budget 30,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 38,413,606 USD
The idea to have Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) continually checking his watch--and the whole back-story related to his habit--was all De Niro's idea.
The boxcar scene--where Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) and John Mardukas (Charles Grodin) discuss whether or not they could ever be friends--was almost entirely improvised on-set. Regarding Grodin's famous line, "You ever had sex with an animal, Jack?": he was told by director Martin Brest to come up with something that was guaranteed to make even Robert De Niro laugh.
Charles Grodin had permanent scars resulting from the real handcuffs he had to wear for a great deal of the film. Even though they had rubber and plastic handcuffs that could be used in wide shots, Robert De Niro, ever the method actor, encouraged Grodin to wear the steel ones in most scenes.
Actor Yaphet Kotto (Agent Alonzo Mosely) commented in a 2015 interview: "Midnight Run was practically the most difficult movie I ever made. Marty Brest doesn't do one take. He shoots a lot of footage, one take after another, all kinds of different ways, experimenting to see if something extraordinary happens. Then even if it does he'll try something else. [...] I didn't know whether it was a comedy or a drama. It could go either way. What I was surprised about is what I thought was going to be funny was funny, and what I thought was going to be dramatic was even funnier".
John Ashton said that Robert De Niro got into his part so much that he actually hit Ashton during the fight scene on the train.
"Jimmy Serrano: Is this moron number one? Put moron number two on the phone."
"Jack Walsh: Where am I? I'm in Boise, Idaho. No, no, no, wait a minute, I'm in Anchorage, Alaska. No, no, wait, I'm in Casper, Wyoming. I'm in the lobby of a Howard Johnson's and I'm wearing a pink carnation. Eddie Moscone: What the fuck are you talking about? Jack Walsh: I am not talking to you, I am talking to the other guys. Eddie Moscone: What other guys? Jack Walsh: Well, let me describe the scene to you. There are these guys, see? They've probably been up for like two days. They stink of B.O., they have coffee breath, they're constipated from sittin' on their asses for so long, they're sitting in a van, and they're probably parked right up the street from your office, Eddie. YOUR PHONE IS TAPPED!"
