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7.3
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Critic Angie Errigo
rated 6

This ultra-violent thriller from The Cooler’s writer-director Wayne Kramer is filthy fun, with more wrinkles than a cheap suit and a climax like a Spaghetti Western shoot-out on ice.

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Cast & Crew

Wayne Kramer
Director
Wayne Kramer
Writer
Karel Roden
As Anzor Yugorsky
Oakley Lehman
As Ski Mask
Chazz Palminteri
As Detective Rydell
Vera Farmiga
As Teresa Gazelle
Johnny Messner
As Tommy 'Tombs' Perello
Bruce Altman
As Tommy 'Tombs' Perello

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In this crime thriller set in New Jersey City, a low-ranking mobster named Joey Gazelle fakes his death to protect himself from both the dangerous world of organized crime and from the FBI after a drug deal gone awry. Joey takes on the responsibility of hiding a gun connected to corrupt cops murdered during a botched drug deal executed by two corrupt cops but keeps it in his home's basement instead, where it is discovered by Oleg an arrest adolescent boy who lives next door, which leads to chaos Joey could have never imagined: a crossfire that involves him, Oleg—who witnessed Joey hiding the guns—and many others targeted by Russian mobster Ivan and the FBI agents who start tailing Joey following his undercover involvement in the drug deal. In the end, Joey fakes death to save himself and his family members from all parties after which he retires from the criminal world and begins a peaceful life away from New Jersey City, at a farmhouse outside the city.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Running Scared include Colombiana, Felon, The Hunted, Pistol Whipped, Corrado, Armored.

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Running Scared was released in theaters on February 24, 2006.