Plot
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder...
Release Year: 2007
Rating: 5.5/10 (23,029 voted)
Critic's Score: 28/100
Director:
Dave Meyers
Stars: Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton
Storyline While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the young couple with a knife, but Jim succeeds to throw him out of the car on the road. On the next morning, the young couple sees John in another car with a family, and while trying to advise the driver that the man is dangerous, they have an accident. While walking on the road, they find the whole family stabbed in the car, and John sees that the driver is still alive. He drives to a restaurant seeking for help, but the police blame Jim and Grace to the murder and send them to the police station. However, John kills the policemen and pursues the couple, playing a tragic and violent mouse and cat game with Grace and Jim.
Writers: Eric Red, Jake Wade Wall
Cast: Sean Bean
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John Ryder
Sophia Bush
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Grace Andrews
Zachary Knighton
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Jim Halsey
Neal McDonough
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Lt. Esteridge
Kyle Davis
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Buford's Store Clerk
Skip O'Brien
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Sheriff Harlan Bremmer Sr.
Travis Schuldt
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Deputy Harlan Bremmer Jr.
Danny Bolero
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Officer Edwards
Jeffrey Hutchinson
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Young Father
Yara Martinez
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Beth
Lauren Cohn
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Marlene
Michael J. Fisher
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Transport Guard #2
(as Mike Fisher)
Joseph Michael Self
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Transport Guard #1
Brad Robinson
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Correctional Officer
Kurt Grossi
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Officer Franklin
Filming Locations: Austin Studios - 1901 E. 51st Street, Austin, Texas, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $10,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $7,818,239
(USA)
(21 January 2007)
(2835 Screens)
Gross: $25,393,046
(Worldwide)
Technical Specs
Runtime:|
Croatia:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Director Cameo:
[Dave Meyers]
Photo on the driver's license of the real John Ryder.
Goofs:
Errors in geography:
In the convenience store scene the guys says that Tatum is 15 miles away. Just before they get to the store there's mountains everywhere. There are no mountains or interstates anywhere near Tatum.
Quotes:
Young Trooper:
I bet you had all sorts of fun when you tore that young man apart back there. But you see, here in the great state of New Mexico, we do support the death penalty.
User Review
Even if you don't compare it to the original this isn't a very good movie
Rating: 3/10
The plot is simple, a couple traveling on a dark and stormy night pick
up a man who was hitch hiking and soon find they should have passed him
by.
The story has been often used but the immediate source for this telling
is a film that starred Rutger Hauer as the title character. Hauer's
John Rider managed to walk the fine line between insanity and reason as
he upped the ante in everything he did in some twisted game that only
he understood. In this remake Sean Bean is the psycho on the loose and
its a wonderfully acted portrayal of a man on the edge of sanity.
Unfortunately he's not very scary. Bean is somehow much to urbane to be
frightening even as he's doing terrible things to people. He's simply
to charming.
Whats worse are the people who pick him up. I hated them from the start
and wanted some one-anyone-to kill them simply so I didn't have to
spend anytime with them. Stupid and vacant they seemed less like people
than the victims Bean kills. C Thomas Howell in the original may have
been a bit of a twit, but I really felt sorry for him as Hauer turned
his life into a living hell, here I felt they had it coming.
Different enough from the original to make comparisons pointless this
film isn't very good on any level and really has no reason to be seen
except for Sean Bean good, but nonthreatening villain
Plot
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Release Year: 1986
Rating: 7.2/10 (20,298 voted)
Director:
Robert Harmon
Stars: Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Storyline A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. Chased by police and shadowed by the killer, the driver's only help comes from a truck stop waitress.
Cast: Rutger Hauer
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John Ryder
C. Thomas Howell
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Jim Halsey
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Nash
Jeffrey DeMunn
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Captain Esteridge
John M. Jackson
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Sergeant Starr
(as John Jackson)
Billy Green Bush
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Trooper Donner
(as Billy Greenbush)
Jack Thibeau
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Trooper Prestone
Armin Shimerman
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Interrogation Sergeant
Gene Davis
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Trooper Dodge
(as Eugene Davis)
Jon Van Ness
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Trooper Hapscomb
Henry Darrow
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Trooper Hancock
Tony Epper
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Trooper Conners
Tom Spratley
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Proprietor
Colin Campbell
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Construction Man
Taglines:
He came from hell. Don't ask him where he wants to go.
Release Date: 21 February 1986
Filming Locations: Amboy, California, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $6,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $2,134,214
(USA)
(23 February 1986)
(794 Screens)
Gross: $5,844,868
(USA)
(6 April 1986)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Rutger Hauer did a lot of the stunt driving throughout the movie which amazed the film crew and even the real stunt drivers.
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes:
When the two police cars are trying to shoot out the tires in the pursuit, they both flip, and the devices under the cars making them flip are visible.
Quotes: Jim Halsey:
You'll get caught. John Ryder:
Sure. Fine. So What.
User Review
"Do I look like a killer to you?"
Rating:
The Hitcher is a marvelous thriller and Rutger Hauer is truly scary as
hell. He is undoubtedly one of the best villains in cinematic history.
The game that Hauer and C. Thomas Howell play out makes for a great way
to spend an hour and a half of your life. You can't help but feel sorry
for Howell as he can never escape the madman. Hauer has zero motive and
that makes him all the more evil. And how he always finds Howell is
something that is unnerving and unexplainable. It's like their paths
were meant to cross somewhere out in in the desert. Eric Red's script
leaves nothing to be desired. The scene where Howell is eating french
fries is one of the most unforgettable in horror history. And so is the
event that leads to the capture of Hauer. The end is fantastic and it's
something that you want to do through the entire movie. It will
definitely make you think twice before picking up hitchhikers. If you
enjoyed The Hitcher, Check out Hitch-Hike (with David Hess) and Duel.
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