Fled (1996)

Director:

Kevin Hooks

Writer (WGA):

Preston A. Whitmore II (written by)

Release Date:

19 July 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller | Romance | Comedy

Tagline:

See how they run.

Plot:

Two prisoners chained together flee during an escape attempt gone bad.

Plot Keywords:

Prison | Chain Gang | Floppy Disk | Mafia | Cuban Mafia

Cast

Laurence Fishburne	...	Piper
Stephen Baldwin	...	Dodge
Will Patton	...	Gibson
Robert John Burke	...	Pat Schiller
Robert Hooks	...	Lieutenant Clark
Victor Rivers	...	Santiago
David Dukes	...	Chris Paine
Ken Jenkins	...	Warden Nichols
Michael Nader	...	Mantajano
Brittney Powell	...	Faith - Cindy
Salma Hayek	...	Cora
Steve Carlisle	...	Herb Foster
Brett Rice	...	Officer Thornhill
J. Don Ferguson	...	Chairman
Kathy Payne	...	Margaret Parks

Also Known As:

Perseguidos (USA: Spanish title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence and language, and for some nudity.

Runtime:

98 min | USA:105 min (original cut)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | DTS-Stereo

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Iceland:16 | USA:R (certificate #34418) | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Sweden:15 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Chile:18 | Germany:18 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/16 | Spain:18 | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Piper shoots the car at Stone Mountain, causing the car to flip over, the explosive device holders are visible under the car.

Quotes:

Det. Matthew 'Gib' Gibson: Dodge!
Dodge: Gibson!
Det. Matthew 'Gib' Gibson: It's a setup!
Piper: Move!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Touch of Satan (#10.8)" (1998)

Soundtrack:

Touch Myself

See How They Run

The unlikeliest of partners, Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin are chained together and make a jail break together from a Georgia road gang. It's now the Nineties and objections about a black and white convict being chained together are now passé. Even with race not a really big issue with these two guys as it was in The Defiant Ones, they've still got a lot of other problems.

The most curious thing about this is the interest the Feds have in this jailbreak. They're keeping the Atlanta PD cop who busted Baldwin in the loop, but at a distance and this arouses Will Patton's curiosity no end. US Marshal Robert John Burke is playing things way too close to the vest to suit Patton.

Baldwin's who they're after. He's a computer hacker who hacked into a holding company that the Cuban Mafia owns and ripped off 25 million dollars. The local Cuban don, Michael Nader, wants him real bad. The wild thing in this film is that he's the only one in the cast who is what he says he is.

A couple of current beauties, Selma Hayek and Brittany Powell, decorate this film as love interests for both Fisburne and Baldwin. Hayek is introduced rather clumsily into the situation that our escapees find themselves in.

In fact the film, enjoyable though it is in many places, could have been a lot better with a much tighter script. Director Kevin Hooks did a good job with what he was given. In fact Kevin Hooks got to cast his dad Robert Hooks in a role as the Atlanta PD supervisor for Patton.

Fled is not a bad film, it could have used a lot of improvement though in the writing.