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Narrow Margin

1990

Peter Hyams

Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B. Sikking, J.T. Walsh ...

6.1

3,061

Thriller. Action A woman secretly witnesses the murder of her blind date for the evening by a top Mafia boss. She immediately goes into hiding without informing the authorities. When they finally catch up with her, she is unwilling to testify to what she has seen, but the Mafia are on her trail. Accompanied by a deputy district attorney, the woman boards a train travelling through a remote part of Canada. The Mafia know him but they have never seen her.

	Author	Review
United States	Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"[It] is a rip-roaring movie if you like train chases--or smoke. If you like a growing attraction between consulting adults (...) or any sense of richness of character you’d be better off home with a good Hitchcock"	NEU
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"Another film in which Gene Hackman is immeasurably better than his material (...) But there is nothing he can do to add suspense to Mr. Hyams's unsurprising mystery."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] is a clumsy version of the Idiot Plot, dressed up as a high-gloss chase thriller. The Idiot Plot, of course, is any plot that would be resolved in five minutes if everyone in the story were not an idiot (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Variety	"Spectacular stunt work and Canadian locations punch up the train thriller 'Narrow Margin', but feature remake is too cool and remote to grab the viewer"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tom Tunney Empire	"What this sometimes witty time-filler never quite manages is a genuine sense of confined menace. For that, you'll have to get aboard the original when it next plays on TV (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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