The year is 2019. Television is now ruling people's lives. The most popular 'audience participation' game show is 'The Running Man'- where convicts can win pardons instead of 'parting gifts' by defeating murderous henchmen known as 'stalkers'. The stalkers haven't had much of a challenge lately. Until Ben Richards comes along. Wrongly convicted of slaughtering 1500 innocent people Richards is the next contestant to fight for his life and his freedom. When 'Running Man' host Damon
This has to be one of the best sci-fi films of the 80s (excluding Star Wars)with a great view of the future of television game shows gone mad!!! Arnie plays an ex soldier framed for the kiling of a crowd of civilians, and selected from a military prison by force, to take part in a warped and sadistic, gladatorial, game show in which the object is to simply, SURVIVE.
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Los Angeles, 2017: America has become a police state and its citizens are mollified with a steady diet of violent television shows. The most popular one is 'The Running Man' where convicts try to survive an invariably lethal obstacle course. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a prison escapee and sometime freedom fighter who, recaptured, finds himself running for his life on the show. Directed by actor Paul Michael Glaser (of 'Starsky and Hutch' fame).
Set in 2019, an ex-cop, framed and convicted of mass slaughter, must struggle against time in a popular game show where convicted felons race for their lives in decimated Los Angeles, in the faint hope of a pardon.
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