Eddie Macon's Run

Eddie Macon's Run

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Directed by Jeff Kanew
Produced by Martin Bregman and Louis A. Stroller, Peter Saphier(executive producer)
Written by Jeff Kanew
Starring Kirk Douglas
John Schneider
Lee Purcell
Music by Norton Buffalo and Mike Hinton
Cinematography James A. Cotner
Edited by Jeff Kanew
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release dates
  • March 23, 1983 (1983-03-23)
Running time
95 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Eddie Macon's Run is a 1983 film based on the 1980 novel by James McLendon, it stars Kirk Douglas, John Schneider and John Goodman in his film debut.[1]

Plot

Eddie Macon (Schneider) was wrongly convicted of a crime. While performing at a prison rodeo in Huntsville, Texas, he escapes and heads for the border, hoping to join his family in Mexico. Marzack (Douglas) is a cop in hot pursuit of Eddie, determined to put him back in jail. Eddie has no transportation, so he takes the journey on foot. He ends up in the woods, where he is nearly killed. He meets Jilly Buck, a bored rich girl who agrees to help him because it's "just a slow Wednesday."

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