Running Scared
Theater release February 24, 2006
Dvd Release: June 6, 2006
Director - Wayne Kramer
Screenwriter- Wayne Kramer
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tagline: Ready. Aim. Run.
Character: Tommy "Tombs" Perello
Starring : Paul Walker, Chaz Palminteri, Johnny Messner
Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Alex Neuberger, Karel
Roden, Ivana Milicevic, Bruce Altman, Elizabeth Mitchell
Plot: Paul Walker stars in the fast-paced crime drama "Running Scared" from critically acclaimed director
Wayne Kramer ("The Cooler"). Walker plays a low-level mobster who, in order to save his family, must recover
a gun used in a mob hit before it's found by his bosses or the cops.
Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) is a low level mob flunkie whose role is to dispose of "hot" guns from mob killings.
We soon find out that Joey has been hiding these guns in the drywall of his basement, instead of tossing them in
the river. When Joey's 10 year-old son (Alex Neuberger) and his best friend, Oleg (Cameron Bright), witness Joey
hiding some guns from a botched drug deal, Oleg steals one of the guns -- a snub-nosed .38 (used to kill a dirty cop)
-- and shoots his abusive stepfather (Karel Roden) with it. Things would be bad enough if the stepfather didn't
happen to be the nephew of a psychotic Russian mob boss (John Noble)... who happens to be in business with
Joey's crew on a gasoline scam. But now Joey's also got the surviving dirty cop (Chazz Palminteri) from the
botched drug deal on his case... and that hot .38 out there on the street, changing hands in an underworld of
freaks, pimps, hookers and pedophiles. As well as Oleg, who can connect Joey to the gun. And even if
Joey can make it through the night, he's still got to answer to his wife (Vera Farmiga)...
