The Fugitive (film, 1993)

Surgeon Richard Kimble is accused of killing his wife and sentenced to death. He claims that he found at home an unknown person who killed his wife, but no one believes him. During transportation, one of the prisoners attacks the guard of the prison bus. The bus flies over the fence and falls on the railroad tracks. Risking his life, Kimble pulls the guard out of the bus and makes an escape. He enters the hospital, steals the belongings of one of the patients and drives away by ambulance. At the scene of the disaster arrives a detachment of marshals led by Samuel Gerard. Gerard overtakes Kimble, but he jumps into the dam's waterfall.

Strange, at first glance, the behavior of the fugitive leads Gerard to the idea that Kimble is innocent. Looking for the fugitive, Gerard discovers that Kimble, running away from the marshals, is simultaneously conducting her own investigation, trying to find out the name and motives of the mysterious one-armed killer. Returning to Chicago , Kimble ends up in a hospital with a prosthetics workshop, and posing as a cleaner, he enters the workshop database and figures out the killer - this is a certain Frederick Sykes who lost his hand while serving in the police. Having burst into Sykes’s apartment, Kimble learns that he worked for a certain Alec Lance, a pathologist from Chicago Memorial Hospital (where Richard himself had also worked) and a partner at Devlin-McGregor, who had lobbied for the speedy launch of a new revolutionary drug RDU-90 (Provazik), which cleans blood vessels from blood clots and cholesterol deposits. Kimble was one of the experts involved in the study of the new drug, and found out that Provazik had one serious side effect: it very quickly destroyed the liver of patients. The criminals, learning about Kimble's search, ordered his murder to Sykes, but Kimble was called for an emergency operation, and his wife was the victim.

Sykes kills the patrolman, the police are convinced that the murder was committed by Kimble, the general hunt for him begins. Kimble disarms Sykes and leaves him handcuffed in a subway car. Kimble enters a meeting of doctors and exposes his colleague, Dr. Nichols, who falsified the results of drug testing. Gerard agrees with his version of the events. Kimble is found not guilty. The next day, he goes to his old job and tells his colleagues and patients about everything that happened to him.

• 1994 - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Tommy Lee Jones), as well as six nominations: Best Film (Arnold Kopelson), Best Film Music (James Newton Howard), Best Cinematography (Michael Chapman), Best Editing (Dennis Wirkler, David Finfer, Dean Goodhill, Don Brosh, Richard Nord, Dov Hoenig), best sound (Donald O. Mitchell, Michael Herbick, Frank Montagno, Scott D. Smith), best sound editing (John Leveck, Bruce Stambler)
• 1994 - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones), as well as two nominations: Best Director (Andrew Davis), Best Actor - Drama (Harrison Ford)
• 1994 - BAFTA Award for Best Sound (John Levek, Bruce Istanbul, Becky Sullivan, Scott D. Smith, Donald O. Mitchell, Michael Herbick, Frank Montagno), as well as three nominations: Best Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones), best montage (Dennis Wirkler, David Finfer, Dean Goodhill, Don Brosh, Richard Nord, Dov Hoenig), best visual effects (William Mesa, Roy Arbogast)
• 1994 - Nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Director of a Feature Film (Andrew Davis)
• 1994 - Nominated for the US Scriptwriters Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Jeb Stewart, David Thuy)
• 1994 - getting into the top ten highest-grossing films of the year according to ASCAP (James Newton Howard)
• 1994 - two awards of the MTV channel : the best screen duo (Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones), the most spectacular episode, as well as two nominations: the best film, best male role (Harrison Ford)
• 1993 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Tommy Lee Jones)

• In 1998, Pat Proft, based on this film, shot the comedy comedy Guilty Without Guilt .
• In Russia, the 2005 film “ Escape ” is known, which almost exactly repeats the general plot. Director Yegor Konchalovsky categorically rejects any connection between his film and the original.
• In the Scrubs series My Friend is a Doctor, Dr. John Dorian watches a movie and sees the Cleaner in it. Indeed, actor Neil Flynn played a cop there.
• " Servants of the Law " (eng. US Marshals , another name: Bailiffs ) is a film made in 1998 by director Stuart Baird. In terms of meaning, it is a sequel to the film “The Fugitive”, the same actors are partially employed in it, and in the story the same team of US bailiffs is busy catching the fugitive from custody.

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