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Rabbit, Run (1970) [R]

Featuring:
James Caan, Anjanette Comer, Carrie Snodgress

Written by:
John Updike
Howard B. Kreitsek

Directed by:
Jack Smight


Release Date:
October 1, 1970

Original Title:
Rabbit, Run

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Solitaire
Worldcross

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: R 

Runtime: 90

3 months ago Rabbit Angstrom ran out to buy his wife cigarettes. He hasn't come home yet.

Overview from TheMovieDB

Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.

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Overview from Open Movies

Harry and Janice Angstrom of Reading, Pennsylvania, have a young adolescent son, Nelson Angstrom. An artificial stone siding salesman, Harry is still most defined as a star basketball player from his high school days, then when he was nicknamed Rabbit. On a Friday evening, Harry, based on events earlier in the day that made him quit smoking cold turkey to be a better person, decides, also on the spur of the moment, to abandon his job and the family, alcoholic Janice who he only married because she was pregnant with Nelson and who in turn doesn't seem to care about him or Nelson, except for the support she requires from him to survive. Him leaving is despite Janice being pregnant. With no plans, he hops in the car with nothing more than the clothes on his back. In the short term, he decides he wants to stay with a friend of a friend he meets the following night, Ruth Leonard, a party girl. What happens in the intervening months is that life around him still dictates what he does, his attempts to foster some semblance of what he considers a normal, a loving relationship even on the first night with Ruth still only him reacting to life around him. Harry still knows about what is going on with the family as Janice's family's pastor, Reverend Jack Eccles, enters his life, his end goal to get Harry to return to Janice on his own want. Through it all, Harry may or may not ultimately find what he's looking for for himself.

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Rabbit, Run (1970) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 5.4/10

Performers

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Production

Art Direction:
Alfred Sweeney

Assistant Director:
James Brown

Assistant Makeup Artist:
Jay Cannistraci

Associate Producer:
Joanne Dean

Director:
Jack Smight

Director of Photography:
Philip H. Lathrop

Editor:
Archie Marshek

Hair Supervisor:
Jean Burt Reilly

Makeup Supervisor:
Gordon Bau

Music Coordinator:
Frank Day

Music Supervisor:
Sonny Burke

Musician:
Tommy Tedesco

Novel:
John Updike

Original Music Composer:
William Lava

Producer:
Howard B. Kreitsek

Producer's Assistant:
Bert Remsen

Scoring Mixer:
Dan Wallin

Second Assistant Director:
Michael Daves

Set Decoration:
Marvin March

Set Dresser:
Frank L. Brown

Sound:
Tom Overton

Unit Production Manager:
Maurie M. Suess

Writer:
Howard B. Kreitsek

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