The Fugitive [Blu-ray] | ![The Fugitive [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51txAHlqW1L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Andrew Davis
Actors: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore, Joe Pantoliano
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  223 reviews
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 012569828407
UPC: 012569828407
EAN: 0012569828407
ASIN: B000I5XOW8
Theatrical Release Date: 1993
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Do you know anyone who hasn't seen this movie? A box-office smash when released in 1993, this spectacular update of the popular 1960s TV series stars Harrison Ford as a surgeon wrongly accused of the murder of his wife. He escapes from a prison transport bus (in one of the most spectacular stunt-action sequences ever filmed) and embarks on a frantic quest for the true killer's identity, while a tenacious U.S. marshal (Tommy Lee Jones, in an Oscar-winning role) remains hot on his trail. Director Andrew Davis hit the big time with this expert display of polished style and escalating suspense, but it's the antagonistic chemistry between Jones and Ford that keeps this thriller cooking to the very end. In roles that seem custom-fit to their screen personas, the two stars maintain a sharply human focus to the grand-scale manhunt, and the intelligent screenplay never resorts to convenient escapes or narrative shortcuts. Equally effective as a thriller and a character study, this is a Hollywood blockbuster that truly deserves its ongoing popularity. --Jeff Shannon
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 joan July 22, 2010
Joanne M. Dykstra (Grand Rapids, MI)
The DVD is so old that it is not viewable on new equipment. It was never seen. A waste of time to return, but a lesson well-learned.
I love this movie with these particular characters and feel that it should have been stated that it is for use with old style equipment only.
 Dissapointed July 22, 2010
Little Gary
I rarely write reviews for products although I purchase most of my DVD/Blu rays (used)from various sellers on Amazon so hopefully readers will understand how so truly dissapointed I felt to compose this review. First, The Fugitive is amongst my top 10 movie favorites of all time (I'm 40 years old). My wife surprised me with a Blu Ray player for father's day and I've purchased 13 Blu Rays and this movie as BY FAR been the most dissapointing. I have proably watched this flick 50 times. I know the dialogue almost word for word and know how scenes will finish before they complete so I was shocked at the added dialogue and longer scenes that accompied this version. Perhaps this is a special addition, although it's not labeled that way anywhere on the packaging. Also the (so called) video upgrade is nearly nonexsistant. Of the 13 movies I now own this is the worse (barely above DVD quality) of the lot. With all of the dissapointment I ejected the movie out of my player and put it on the shelf thankful that I still held on to my old reliable DVD which I will turn to when that feeling to watch Harrison, Tommy and company do their thing again for the 51st time.
 Great then, great now July 6, 2010
Cheryl Vanderplow (Plainfield, IL, US)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Fugitive with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones has long been a farvorite of my Dad's. Earlier this year he started asking me if I could get a copy for him. After coming up empty handed at traditional DVD outlets, I took my search online to Amazon. I was not only able to find a copy, it was reasonably priced and arrived just in time for Father's Day. He was thrilled and so was I!
For Harrison Ford Fans Only!!! June 18, 2010
B. J Robbins (La Quinta, CA United States)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
In this film, Harrison Ford becomes the second coming of Superman. The film requires not only a complete suspension of disbelief but a suspension of intelligence also (like most Sylvester and Arnold movies...). That HF survives the jump from the top of the dam without a scratch is totally unbelievable, but apparently the writers needed this kind of nonsense to sell the script.
I bought the film because I'm a fan of Tommy Lee, who always imbues a part with intelligence and warmth. Compare his performance with Ford's usual wooden acting (with a lisp no less...).
To watch HF escape from one impossible situation after another, is boring, and ultimately actually funny. Dig the scene where he is walking down a dark road, and a pretty woman stops her car and asks "Do you need a ride". Now that's real believable, eh?
In the light of all that follows, you wonder why HF couldn't subdue the ONE ARMED MAN who killed his wife. Oh right, SuperFord SHOULD have been able to do it, but there would have been no movie (and I, for one, would be grateful!!!!). And he must have had an inexperienced Legal Aid attorney, who couldn't establish reasonable doubt, to have been convicted in the first place. Beautiful, wealthy Sela Ward? So much in love? He was rich, but she was richer...not exactly a believable motive.
After he sneaks into a hospital to search out the truth (posing as a janitor), he is asked by a female doctor to wheel a black boy who is having trouble breathing to an operating room (bet than happens a lot). Then he looks at the boy's x-ray for a few seconds, decides he has been misdiagnosed, and changes the boy's chart for a change of treatment. Of course, he saves the boy's life. All in a day's work for SuperFord. Man I wish he was available to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf!!!! This guy makes Welby, Kildare, Casey, and Jonas Salk look like first year interns!!.
Then, of course, the topper. He exposes his fellow worker who falsified documents and switched tissue samples just so his new drug could be approved by the FDA ("No side effects". Oh come on. Even I don't believe that...) and he could make millions of dollars. A straw man, the surest indicator of cheap, amateurish writing.
As I said this is only for diehard Ford fans who have to own EVERY movie he made. I'm a big fan of Tommy Lee, but the film is so stupid, I have a hard time sitting through it....
A brief comment April 2, 2010
magellan (Santa Clara, CA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Please note that I saw this movie on TV so I can't speak to the quality of the video transfer or its features (although, based on the negative reviews here, it sounds like it wasn't that good).
I watched this movie recently after a hiatus of 17 years and it held up very well. Despite the length of the movie, it never drags and the suspense just keeps mounting from beginning to end. I read that the train wreck was real, in an age before CGI, making that one of the great action sequences of all time.
Lee and Ford are perfect in their roles, and the supporting cast does an excellent job as well. There are just no false notes anywhere with the characters in this movie, not to mention all the spellbinding action. You're better off watching this one again on a slow night rather than most of the stuff currently coming out of Hollywood.
My only quip is that I think the phony tissue samples would have been discovered during the drug's FDA approval process--especially considering they were said to be from the same liver--but this is a minor point considering the movie's overall strengths. All in all still a great flick that rewards watching more than once.
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