Hit and Run

Plot synopsis:
Charlie Bronson (Dax Shepard) is enrolled in the Witness Protection Program, staying in Milton, California under the supervision of incompetent U.S. Marshal Randy Anderson (Tom Arnold). Charlie's girlfriend Annie Bean (Kristen Bell) is a professor at Milton Valley College and has a doctorate in Non-Violent Conflict Resolution from Stanford University, a major she created herself. Annie's supervisor Debbie Kreeger (Kristin Chenoweth) calls Annie in for a meeting, where she tells her that the University of California is starting a Conflict Resolution program and is interested in interviewing her. The interview is scheduled for Wednesday in Los Angeles at 4:00; Annie balks at the idea saying she needs to talk to her boyfriend about it first, until Debbie tells her to live for herself instead of boyfriends, and that she will be fired if she does not make it to the interview.
A perplexed Annie returns home and tells Charlie of the job interview, upsetting him since Los Angeles is the area he lived in prior to enrolling in Witness Protection and can't return to. Charlie insists Annie interview for the job for her own sake, even though he would be unable to follow her, but Annie instead returns to the college the next day to beg to keep her job. While she is gone, Charlie decides he would return to L.A. after all, and picks up Annie in his souped-up, restored Lincoln Continental, promising to take her to her interview.
Before they leave town Annie realizes that the teaching certificate she needs is at the home of her ex-boyfriend Gil Rathbinn (Michael Rosenbaum). She had previously told Gil that Charlie is in Witness Protection, and he urges Annie not to go with Charlie, who he is certain is a criminal who will chop her up. Annie blows him off and leaves with Charlie; Gil memorizes Charlie's license plate and asks his gay police officer brother Terry (Jess Rowland) to look up the plate, who finds that the vehicle is registered to "Yul Clint Perkins" — Charlie's real name. Gil uses the name to look up Charlie's past, discovering he is a former getaway driver who testified in an ultimately unsuccessful bank robbery case against his accomplices, one of whom shot the bank guard. Gil finds the Facebook page of one of the defendants, Alexander Dmitri (Bradley Cooper), and leaves a message saying he knows where Yul Perkins is for the next 24 hours.
Meanwhile, Randy calls Charlie after discovering he is not home. Charlie tells him he is returning to L.A., and Randy insists on accompanying him per Marshals Service policy, leaving Milton in order to pursue Charlie. A short time later Charlie and Annie discover Gil following them in his vehicle. Charlie pulls over, intending to beat up Gil, but instead tries to non-violently resolve the situation at Annie's insistence. Gil is unmoved, and reveals that he both knows Charlie's real name and has Alex Dmitri as a "Facebook friend". Charlie and Annie then flee from Gil in the Continental, in the process running Randy off the road as he arrives, but ultimately losing Gil. Elsewhere, Alex sees Gil's Facebook message, gathers his fellow bank robbers Neve (Joy Bryant) and Alan (Ryan Hansen) and heads to meet Gil.
Annie and Charlie gas up the Continental, where the vehicle's engine is admired by a redneck named Sanders (David Koechner). The two then make their way to a motel, where they are unknowingly followed by Sanders. In the morning, Charlie tries to start the vehicle, only to discover that the engine has been stolen in the night. Gil arrives shortly after, ambushing Charlie with a golf club, but Charlie distracts him and knocks him out, placing him in his vehicle. He quickly discovers that Gil was also accompanied by Alex's crew, who are at the front desk. Charlie grabs the VIN Number of a Corvette in the parking lot, makes a duplicate keyless entry for the vehicle using the former tools of his trade, and then leaves with Annie, Gil and Alex's crew in hot pursuit, with Randy joining the chase. During the chase Annie and Charlie argue over his past, where he reveals that he was a getaway driver who participated in 13 bank robberies, and that Neve was once his fiancee. The two ultimately escape their pursuers again.
Afterward, Annie demands Charlie pull over, where she confronts him for lying to her about his past. She decides to proceed to L.A. without Charlie; Gil arrives shortly after, and agrees to take Annie the rest of the way. A short time later they are run off the road by Alex, who takes Annie hostage and calls Charlie, telling him to meet at a nearby diner. Charlie arrives and Alex demands money in exchange for Annie, then argues about Charlie's betrayal, cut short when Alex reveals that he was raped in jail and blames Charlie for it. Charlie agrees to take him to a hidden stash of bank robbery money located at the home of his estranged father Clint (Beau Bridges). While in transit he surreptitiously places a call to Randy, now in the company of Terry (who's attracted to Randy) and his partner Angela Roth (Carly Hatter), and gives Randy his father's address. The three pick up Gil along the way.
At Clint's house, Charlie digs up a bag of money he hid in a pasture with his father, at the same time reconciling with him. His father carefully mentions he owns a Class 1 Off-Road racing vehicle; shortly after he knocks Alex down with a shovel, then fights with Alan as Charlie and Annie make their escape. The two get in the racer and flee just as Gil, Randy, Terry and Angela arrive. Alex and Neve attempt to follow, but Randy manages to shoot Alex as the latter fires at Charlie, forcing them to stop and placing the two under arrest. Two Marshals (Jason Bateman and Nate Tuck) later arrive and take Alex and his crew into custody, complimenting Randy and Terry on their work.
After their escape, Charlie tells Annie he is committed to getting her to the interview still, wanting to keep his word despite the fact that she no longer loves him. Annie responds that she still loves him, and the two reconcile before continuing the trip. Charlie makes it to the University of California campus in time for Annie to make her interview. Before she leaves, Charlie offers to spend the rest of his life with her, which Annie accepts. The final scene cuts some months in the future, showing Randy and Terry, now in a relationship, giving each other a brief pep talk before heading to take the Marshals' exam.
In a stinger segment, Annie makes her interview with Professor Sandy Osterman (Sean Hayes), interrupting him as he is smoking from a bong. After a rough start due to Osterman's embarrassment at hotboxing his office and confusion at him not being a woman as Debbie had described, Osterman reveals that Debbie is his sister and she has jokingly called him a girl since he was 9. Annie expresses sympathy for how this must make Sandy feel, earning his approval and an immediate job offer, which she accepts.

Tags: revenge, murder

Review:
Believing that she is good enough to drive, she winds up accidentally hitting a man on a dark road, but doesn't realize it until she gets home.
The film has a very suspenseful storyline about a woman (Mary Murdock) who accidentally hits a man (Timothy Emser played by a transformed Kevin Corrigan) on the road and unknowingly brings him back to her garage on her bumper.
It starts off well when Mary Murdock (played by Laura Breckinridge) drives home drunk from a party and has a near-accident on the road.
Overall, I'd say while this had some quirky unexplainable moments, it had what I basically look for in a horror movie, some gore, scares and suspense..
I like these sorta films normally, and to be fair the acting wasn't bad but something just went wrong, maybe I'm being too harsh as there were some good driving sequences (with a twist) and well shot.
I didn't expect the ending, but I didn't really care too much by this time, it was a bit like the writers gave up and asked some of his/her kids to help out.If you like suspenseful horror stalker type films then you may enjoy this, as my partner doesn't and she didn't like this.A couple of B movie gory bits as well.
The basic story is a very unusual tale of a young woman who thinks she killed a kindergarten school teacher but things go crazy unexpected ways.
Acting out of pain and rage, he lashes out at her and she whacks at him with a golf club hard enough to finish him off - or so she thinks.While it does succumb to the genre cliché of having a "villain" who's hard to kill, it does work in terms of a story where things just keep spiraling out of control.
I seem to remember many years ago a true story about a woman who hit a guy and drove all the way home with him crushed to the grill of her car.
And for the first half of the movie, that's the way it plays out, as sort of a drama about how this woman who has killed a guy with her car is coping and trying to cover it up.
But then all of a sudden it turns into Saw Part Seven the gore fest as the hit and run victim isn't really dead but is now a raving psychopath hell bent on torturing Mary the drunk driver.
There's just no point to this movie and I guess that's why it is so demented and hilarious.Members of MADD won't exactly get a kick out of it, because the victim of this drunk driving accident is a crazed lunatic wielding pruning shears, unless this is a vision of DUI hell.
We can't root for the girl either, because she's a stupid bimbo who, after all, did run over a pedestrian after binge drinking at a bar, and then re-kills him, like, four more times.
It has funny parts.Every few minutes the story changes...but one thing is sure...it's vivid.With a small budget to most people...but more than my weekly paycheck, this is an entertaining little feast that would be best viewed when drinking some hard liquor, eating a good pizza and smoking some fine herb or whatever your choice of recreation is.Just with the knowledge that you don't hop into your car afterwards before you sober up.I would have liked to see the dead dude open his eyes or crack a smile at the end..
Usually in horror films it's clear, here, its not because the victim and the killer behave in ways you don't expect in a typical horror fashion.The story structure is a journey of what to do next and then it turns that formula completely upside down when the main character who is in the driver seat becomes the passenger along for the ride.
The character in the "killer" role takes you to unexpected places with satisfying results.You never know what will come happen next with this movie, and that's the fun of it.
"Hit and Run" is a cool little low-budget horror that is more than meets the eye, IMO.One of the wackiest horror films I've seen in a while.
I thought the film plays as a piece of black comedy and horror which makes it pretty bizarre and worth watching, especially for a dtv.
The bad guy Kevin Corrigan does a good job as a school teacher who becomes a deranged weird villain after being buried alive.
One thing I did like the way the story took shape based on the accidental hitting of the guy.
Generally the lead Laura Breckenridge gave a decent indie-type performance as Mary the hit and run perpetrator.
Kevin Corrigan was not too bad as the hit and run victim-turned-killer.
Overall, I'd say it's worth a look if you like the B movie sensationalist films..
HIT and RUN follows the story of a college student who after she returns home from a night of late partying, is drunk and listens to music and before you know it, she is swerving off the road and almost has an accident.
She gets home just to be awakened by a noise coming for the garage and once she goes in there comes face to face what she has done, which is bring a man she hit with her car back home on her bumper all bloody and generally a real big mess.
One thing I liked was the way the horror parts were kind of concealed and surprised us in the second act.
The movie kept me asking the question that maybe the whole hit and run was in Mary's head and maybe the victim coming back for revenge was not real.
The story seems to be based on an urban legend where someone finds they accidentally hit a stranger at night and brought them back home to the garage stuck on the bumper and barely alive.
Kevin Corrigan (from The Departed) plays the twisted bad guy and while I wish there had been more of him, I liked what I saw.
He had a certain creepiness that caught me off guard.All in all, much to my surprise, this little movie offered a lot more than I thought, intense action sequences, some gore, horror, suspense and last but not least, some good dance music..
I thought the story worked pretty well right up to the twist at the end.I'm leaning to believe that this psycho-chiller film is intended to be morbidly funny.
I wasn't sure what was coming next and I think that's what i liked about it.And perhaps it's this very tension along with some high energy (especially in the second half) that makes the movie worthwhile among the current horror fare.
but the film is fairly good.The story is the bizarre tale of a woman who hit a man with her car and discovered him stuck on her bumper, based on a true story or an urban legend.The teacher in this case is played by the solid Corrigan, whose teeth give him a feral appearance, and this is his scariest role so far.I was pleasantly surprised by the lead actress and the events that unfolded.
Very natural.Worth watching, not bad at all for nightmare horror /suspense.Don't drink and drive folks, there are lunatics you could hit out there!.
Hit & Run in tradition of B movie horrors.
A crazy guy gets hit by a drunk gal, Mary on a dark road.
Story is getting unclear as the missing and dead man reappears at MARY's home.
First part of this movie Hit and Run is basically a thriller with some horror elements.
Rick her boyfriend ends up dead.At this point, the movie shifts gears into something like surreal horror.
More murders take place by Emser and when he takes Mary to bury her in the same grave, things take another turn when she gets away and another hit and run is going to happen, this one a purposeful one.In this second half, the thriller suspense gives way toward more grotesque fantastical horror elements.The movie somehow manages to blend these different styles into a somewhat coherent curious package..
Freshman director Enda McCallion's gripping little thriller "Hit and Run" is a nimble, well-made melodrama about a college student on spring break who may have accidentally killed a man that she has never seen.
Although the idea is straight out of "I Know What You Did Last Summer," "Hit and Run" is a worthwhile chiller.Mary Murdock (Laura Breckinridge) is on her way home after she leaves a bar where her friends and she were trying to drink the place out of liquor.
Imagine Mary's apprehension when she discovers the body of a man (Kevin Corrigan) stuck on the front bumper of her jeep.
Mary is in for a rude awakening when she learns that the body wrapped in the blanket at the burial site is not the school teacher!McCallion opens "Hit and Run" with a shot straight out of "So I Married an Axe Murderer" as a bartender fills shot glasses on a waitress's platter.
The Fluid camera work, straightforward scripting, and the use of reliable stalker movie scenes make "Hit and Run" a rather compelling sit and watch experience.
The uber-hot Laura Breckenridge is the accidental murderer in this very decent b horror movie "Hit and Run" which comes off more as an indie film.
This low budget horror has a little of that 'I know what you did last summer' feeling to it, but in a toned down way where it's mostly one person (mary) we follow.
It starts off very similar to Stuck (which I liked too), and then transforms into an unusual low budget horror movie.
The thing about this flick is that in this movie, you don't know for sure who is the the good guy or the bad guy.
The crazy guy (corrigan) who gets hit is first the victim of the hit and run, and afterward he becomes the villain when he goes all out and takes revenge on the girl.
Hit and Run [2009] starts out with young Mary, a teenager leaving a bar after a long night of partying.
Then I thought that it's even possible maybe the whole hit and run might not be real either and the whole thing was some kind of nightmare she'd entered, like "a Christmas Carol" or something and the freaky teacher back from the dead was like a ghost of Christmas Past teaching her a horrifying, nasty, never-to-forget lesson about why she's a naughty girl drinking and driving.
For a low-budget B movie thriller that had some compelling story twists, surprisingly Breckenridge is not bad as as young "scream queen'.
When i saw he was in this little horror movie playing a bipolar kindergarten teacher who goes ballistic on a hit and run driver, I had to see what kevin was up to in this movie.
Instead it is strongly based on an urban legend, you know, the one where a driver hits a bump in the night and unwittingly has hit a little girl on the road and brings the girl home to the garage on the car's bumper.
I heard something like that as a kid growing up in the Midwest (Ohio).I've seen both Stuck and Hit and Run, and am looking forward to see a new foreign film on this similar topic, an Indian movie called Accident on Hill Road.
In Stuck, she's well aware she's hit the guy and just lets him die, and in Hit and Run she's a college girl who doesn't realize till later that night she hit the guy when she hears noises coming from her garage, she tries to help him but ends up killing him..
HIT AND RUN is a very anemic horror movie apparently based on true events.The only thing the movie has going for it is the plot, which may not be unique but presents the opportunity for an exciting, suspenseful experience.
She then buries the seemingly dead guy, who later comes back for revenge.From reciting the plot, it is clear the movie is heavily influenced by I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, as well as the final story in CREEPSHOW 2.The direction is very pedestrian.Imagine the suspense and atmosphere - you'll have to because these things are not in the movie itself!
Instead, the driving scenes merely resemble the opening of many movies without doing anything special despite the importance to events happening later.The scenes where the supposedly dead man comes back for his revenge could have utilised much suspense and tension.
I thought Miss Breckenridge was a very bland lead actress who does not have one tenth of the appeal or charisma of actresses such as Kate Beckinsale from VACANCY.Kevin Corrigan fares better as the mysterious victim of the hit and run accident, but it is clear he is held back by an uninspired script and poor direction that failed to properly demonstrate character motivations and bring genuine menace to the audience.Overall, HIT AND RUN is a very anemic movie that demonstrates little effort or imagination.
so this chick avoids a tire by going off the road, after a night out with her friends, and by the time she gets home and hears some noises, she realizes that she hit a guy, who ended up getting stuck in front of her car.
Read on.I find it baffling that any movie could be based on the premise that a drunken teenager runs over a totally innocent guy, beats him with a golf club, then buries him alive...and then make HIM the bad guy.
I don't know about you, but if I think there's an intruder in my house the last thing I'm doing is announcing my presence.Nothing really works in this movie.
This' film can't do' well' 'at' the box' office this movie wad boring' not entertaining at all' The film starts off no where and goes no where' A woman' drives home and then' finds a' 'dead' body in her garage'!
And that's' the only' price I'll ever' be paying for a movie like this' In one scene a young woman' screams her head off while barring' the body!
After drinking a lot of booze with her girlfriends in a bar, the wasted Mary Murdock (Laura Breckenridge) drives her jeep home; however, she looses control and runs over a passageway.
When Mary realizes that she has killed the man, she panics and decides to bury the body in the woods, with tragic consequences."Hit and Run" is an imbecile movie with an imbecile character.
But, then the very teenagers this thing was aimed at would find it boring and over their heads.In any event, if you are a low to average intelligence and enjoy gore, by all means view this flick.I would give it a one, but the concept of a woman discovering she has run someone down, and then what to do, is a good idea for a decent screen play, but this wasn't it..
The dumb protagonist decides to drink drive and accidentally run over somebody; instead of going to the police she buries the body in the woods before somebody starts stalking her.This cheap tale goes for a mix of atmosphere and gore, but fails on both counts.
I really need to mute my curiosity.It tells the story of a girl who leaves a party, drives under the influence and runs a guy over.
I know that Mary, the girl who discovers she has almost killed a guy, could panic.
Or things like blood coming out of a phone, leading us to think that the whole story is just a bad dream.
don't ask me..Maniac then drives her around town and the camera-work kicks back in as the car speeds around trying to scare Mary, by this stage I had lost interest as you might do to be honest, the rest of the film is empty and nothing is worth watching.
Of course, there are still some "reviewers" who give such a picture 10/10, like "angela-filmsociety" who titles her one-and-ONLY-review on IMDb "Hit & Run in tradition of B movie horrors".
From beginning to end, watching Hit and Run is not a comfortable experience, which is exactly how a horror film should be.
While some say that Hit and Run bears too strong a similarity to Stuart Gordon's Stuck, the two are actually very different if you look beyond the surface level.When Mary (Laura Breckingridge) goes out with some of her girl friends over Spring Break, it seems that they are going to have a fun night.
Mary never expects that while driving home after having a few drinks she would encounter a situation that would turn her world upside down and running for her life.
She begins seeing little signs around her house that imply that someone knows what happened and it trying to mess with her.The film twists in another unexpected direction as Mary discovers that her intuition is right.
While it is no surprise that the man she hit starts coming after her seeking revenge, there are a number of sudden turns in the plot that will keep a horror movie fan on their toes till the very end.
There are so many positive reviews that I expected to like it despite the low IMDb rating of 4.7.After a night of drinking, Mary (Laura Breckenridge) unknowingly runs over Timothy Esmer (Kevin Corrigan) in her Jeep.
You kind of feel sorry for her even; though she runs over a guy while she's drunk, and tries to cover it up instead of manning up and taking responsibility.
Well this movie is not like that but it has kind of a similar tongue-in-cheek thing going on, I know it's a stretch but almost an homage in some ways, with the teenage girl Mary hitting and running over a bi-polar teacher who was out wandering aimless in the woods, and later in her garage finds him there hanging on bumper.