Running Scared
Directed by	Wayne Kramer
Written by	Wayne Kramer
Starring	Paul Walker Cameron Bright Vera Farmiga Chazz Palminteri Alex Neuberger
Music by	Mark Isham
Cinematography	Jim Whitaker
Editing by	Arthur Coburn
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	February 24, 2006
Running time	122 mins.
Language	English
Budget	$17,000,000
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Plot

The movie begins with Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) driving with a boy, Oleg (Cameron Bright) in a convertible. Oleg has a blood stain on his shirt, implying that he had been shot. The rest of the movie flashes back to the events that led up to this point. Joey, a low-level mafioso, is attending a drug deal with his boss Tommy (Johnny Messner) and associate Sal. The deal goes bad when masked men burst in and try to steal the drugs and money. The stand-off descends into a shoot-out and several of the masked men are killed before the leader flees. Tommy discovers a badge on one of the dead men, revealing that they were dirty cops. As the mobsters flee in a panic, Tommy gives the murder weapons to Joey, telling him to get rid of them. Paul William Walker IV (born September 12, 1973) is an American actor and former fashion model. ... Cameron Douglas Bright (born January 26, 1993[1]) is a Canadian child actor. ... The O.C. ( stands for Orange County) is an American television dramedy/soap opera program broadcast on the Fox Network. ...

Rather than dispose of the guns, Joey comes home to his wife Teresa (Vera Farmiga) and son Nicky (Alex Neuberger). He hides the guns in the basement while Nicky and his friend from next door, Oleg, secretly watch. Oleg returns home to his abusive stepfather, Anzor Yugorsky (Karel Roden) and battered mother. Anzor eventually becomes violent and Oleg shoots him with a nickel-plated .38, one of the guns Joey stashed in his basement. Next door, the Gazelle family is disrupted by the gunshots and Joey rushes next door. He finds Anzor wounded but alive, and discovers from him that Oleg has fled with the cop-killer gun. Vera Ann Farmiga (born August 6, 1973) is an American actress. ... Neuberger (left) with Paul Walker in Running Scared, 2006 Alexander James Neuberger (born November 27, 1992) is an American actor. ... Karel Roden Karel Roden, born June 5, 1962 in České Budějovice is Czech actor. ...

Joey must now hunt down Oleg and retrieve the gun before the dirty cops find it or the mafia discover that he lost it. Oleg, in turn, wanders through a sinister urban landscape and encounters a series of often nightmarish characters. He initially runs afoul of a hobo who attempts to use the gun to steal a drug stash. After the hobo is killed, while running around a the corner of a small building, Oleg abruptly runs into a female prostitute being abused by a pimp. Pulling out the gun just as the pimp gets ready to put in a final blow, Oleg attempts to distract him by holding him at gunpoint, at the moment unaware that the gun is not loaded. Pulling the trigger several times, the pimp then threatens him with a knife. The prostitute knocks him out with a pipe and thanks Oleg, turning to walk off just as he undergoes an asthma attack. Feeling pity for the boy, the prostitute takes him to the nearest pharmacy to get him Beclovent (an inhaler), threatening the man behind the counter with the unloaded gun to get it for them. Afterward, the prostitute takes Oleg to a nearby diner to get him a hamburger. An inhaler is a medical device used for delivering medication into the body via the lungs. ...

Joey takes Nicky with him to meet his mafia associates at the same diner, but only Nicky notices Oleg. Nicky sneaks away and meets with Oleg in the diner bathroom, where they hide the gun in a toilet. Meanwhile, the mobsters confront Joey on the status of the missing gun. Detective Rydell (Chazz Palminteri), the leader of the dirty cops, has connected the gun that shot the dirty cop with the gun that shot Anzor. Joey assures the mobsters that Rydell is lying, but they are not entirely convinced. As Joey drives away, Nicky admits that he met with Oleg and stashed the gun, but the gun is gone by the time Joey returns to the diner. Chazz Palminteri (born May 15, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer, best known for his performances in The Usaul Suspects, A Bronx Tale and Mulholland Falls. ...

Meanwhile, after a painful reunion with Anzor and refusal to let him know where the gun is, Oleg escapes the ice cream parlor they are at into the parking lot, sneaking behind parked cars as Anzor storms out after him, ultimately unable to find him. Climbing into the back of a van, Oleg accidentally falls into the clutches of an overly-friendly, married couple Dez and Edele who take him along with two other kids back to their apartment. After being taken to the large playroom filled with various assortments of toys, and noticing the rather awkward behavior of Dez and Edele, he quickly realizes that the couple are pedophiles/child sex abusers who have kidnapped him and may kill him at some point in the near future. Using an excuse of an upset stomach to go to the bathroom, Oleg at first searches for an unlocked window or some other possible way out of the apartment before noticing Edele's purse by the door. Quickly digging around in it for her cellphone, he sticks beneath the hem of his shorts and beneath his shirt just as Edele notices him. Telling her that he was unable to find the bathroom, although impulsively suspicious, she leads him herself to the bathroom, giving him a small pat atop the head as he enters. Locking the door, Oleg immediately calls up Teresa Gazelle to help him. Telling him to look up in the medicine cabinet for any prescription medication, Oleg grabs one and quickly reads off the address to her, hanging up and stuffing the phone in the toothbrush cup before running over to flush the toilet just as Dez and Edele feverishly burst through the locked door. Pedophilia (American English) or paedophilia / pædophilia (British English), from the Greek &#960;&#945;&#953;&#948;&#959;&#966;&#953;&#955;&#953;&#945; (paidophilia) < &#960;&#945;&#953;&#962; (pais) boy, child and &#966;&#953;&#955;&#953;&#945; (philia) friendship, (ICD-10 F65. ...

Teresa eventually arrives and knocks on the door, Edele instructing Dez to take the kids back to the bedroom before emerging from the playroom in nothing more than a robe and quickly going to answer the door. Telling her that Oleg called her from their apartment, Edele attempts to assure Teresa that she has the incorrect address. Threatening to call and wait for the police to arrive, Edele hesitantly lets her inside. Searching through the entirety of the apartment, including the bedroom where Edele's "two children" lie in bed asleep, bathroom, and finally the playroom, Teresa finds no trace of Oleg; however, just as she walks out the door, she comes to a realization and roughly forces herself back in, pointing out that there was not a single photograph of them or the children in the entire house. Edele panics and makes an excuse that they were just moving in and that everything was still in storage. Rushing back into the playroom, Teresa gets immensely worried just as Dez and Edele appear, Dez threatening to call the police on her. Turning his threat back on them both with child abduction, Teresa pulls out a gun from her purse just as Edele advances on her, yelling at them to tell her where Oleg is. While the couple remains silent, Teresa notices something in the nearby closet and opens it to see an unconscious Oleg fall out, his hands tied and a plastic bag wrapped around his head. Desperately attempting to revive him with CPR, Teresa keeps the two adults at bay with her gun in hand. Oleg eventually revives and Teresa cuts his bindings loose with a surgical instrument, helping him to his feet. Ordering them to move over, Teresa instructs Oleg to get the two other children from the bedroom. In a last ditch attempt, Dez offers Teresa thousands of dollars in cash and diamonds from their safe as long as she just takes Oleg and leaves. Ignoring his offer and keeping her gun pointed at them, Teresa browses the closet behind her, sifting through the costumes until she notices a hangar of plastic body bags, and behind it shelves of several DVD cases with children's names on them. Beneath the shelves, a pile of more "surgical instruments", and finally also noticing the plastic covering of the floor. Aghast and calling them "sick fucks", Teresa demands Dez's phone and calls the police, giving an address to the apartment building and reports hearing gunshots from across the hall. She hangs up and shoots them both dead. Child abduction is the abduction or kidnapping of a child (or baby) by an older person. ...

Joey continues to search for the gun as his mafia associates become violent and the Russian mob gets involved in the affair. All the various criminal factions, along with Oleg and Joey, meet at a hockey rink. The various members trade accusations and alternative theories of the truth as the meeting descends into a shootout. All of the crime lords are killed but not before Joey reveals that he is actually an undercover police officer. Finally, a battered Joey and Oleg emerge. Joey takes Oleg out for some breakfast, but a fellow diner turns out to be the pimp that Oleg had previously encountered. The pimp threatens Oleg with a knife and produces the same gun Joey had previously been trying to locate. In the ensuing struggle Joey kills the pimp by stabbing him in the neck. In a flash, Joey and Oleg are seen fleeing the diner. The movie has reached the opening scene once again. Joey and Oleg drive away, both bloodstained, but after lifting up his shirt to find no wound of any kind, Oleg realizes that it is Joey's blood on both of them, as he had been shot in the struggle. All the while, Oleg's mother has locked herself up in the shed behind their house, grievened and staring down at a picture. Moments later she holds up a lighter right in a cloud of propane gas escaping from a tank she opened, igniting it and ultimately blowing up the shed and part of the house, killing herself in the process. All the while, Joey soon loses the ability to drive and passes out from blood loss.

A policeman's funeral is held for Joey, with Teresa, Nicky, and Oleg mourning. Later, Teresa, Oleg, and Nicky are living in a rural house. Joey steps out from under a car. The funeral had been a cover to protect Joey from mob reprisals. The Gazelle family, with the new addition of Oleg, live happily ever after.

Cast

• Paul Walker as Joey Gazelle: A low-level thug of the Perello mob family. He is ordered to dispose Tommy's gun after it was used in a bloody shootout that resulted in a death of a police officer; however, Joey never does and the gun is stolen by Oleg, thrusting Joey into a dangerous mission to retrieve the missing gun before either the cops or the Perello mob do. His character is representative of the "Big Bad Wolf". ^[1]

• Cameron Bright as Oleg Yugorsky: The son of Anzor and Mila Yugorsky, who are Russian immigrants and neighbors of Joey Gazelle. Oleg steals a gun Joey neglected to dispose and uses it to shoot his father, but only wounds him. He runs away after the shooting, causing Joey to give chase in an effort to retrieve the gun before the police do. Oleg is representative of "Pinocchio". ^[2]

• Vera Farmiga as Teresa Gazelle: Joey's wife and mother of Nicky. She doesn't want her son exposed to the lifestyle of crime that Joey leads and thus shelters him. She constantly pleads with Joey to not involve their son when he is taken by him on his mission to locate Oleg and retrieve the gun.

• Chazz Palminteri as Detective Rydell: A corrupt police officer who wants the missing gun in order to bring down the Perellos, and is willing to do anything to retrieve it. However, his greed causes him to blackmail the Perellos for a large sum of money in return for ignoring the gun altogether. He ultimately is blown up by a cell phone bomb planted by Tommy "Tombs" Perello.

• Karel Roden as Anzor Yugorsky: Oleg's father (though not biologically) and a Russian immigrant who now works for the Russian mob in America. He is very abusive, beating his wife and child, and has an addiction to drugs. His cruel and vile behavior causes Oleg to shoot his father, but only wounding him in the process. At the film's climax he is ordered to kill his own son, yet finds himself unable to pull the trigger. Instead, he sacrifices his life for his son, showing that deep within him he does indeed possess a love for his family. Anzor is also obsessed with the actor John Wayne, so much so that he tattoos the man's figure on his back. He even thinks of himself as John Wayne when he is shot to death in the back, similar to how John Wayne died in The Cowboys.

• Johnny Messner as Tommy "Tombs" Perello: The cruel and sadistic son of Frankie Perello. He orders Joey to get rid of his gun once it is used to (unknowingly) kill a corrupt cop. When he hears that the gun has possibly gone missing, he begins to suspect Joey may have something to do with its disappearance. Consequently, he keeps a close watch over Joey throughout the film.

• Ivana Milicevic as Mila Yugorsky: Oleg's mother. She was a prostitute in Russia and conceived Oleg there. The Russian mafia sent orders for her to be killed, yet Anzor, the mafia leader's nephew, marries her in order to protect her life. This angers his uncle and he forces them to leave and move to America, where they raise the child. Anzor becomes abusive in this foreign land and beats his wife and child, out of frustration and his alcohol and drug addictions. Mila ultimately commits suicide.

• Alex Neuberger as Nicky Gazelle: Joey and Teresa's son and Oleg's best friend. His parents try to shelter him from the criminal life that Joey leads. However, he is thrust into this corrupt world when he is taken by Joey to help find Oleg.

• Michael Cudlitz as Sal "Gummy Bear" Franzone: One of the henchmen for the Perellos. He is shot unexpectedly by Tommy when he thinks he is a traitor.

• Bruce Altman as Dez: Edele's husband and referred to as "papa bear" by Edele. Both appear to be a kind and loving couple, but they are revealed to be a pair of serial killers who lure children into their apartments to exploit and kill them. Both are representative of the witch from "Hansel and Gretel".^[3]

• Elizabeth Mitchell as Edele: Dez's wife and referred to as "mama bear" by Dez. She is representative of the witch from "Hansel and Gretel".^[3]

• Arthur J. Nascarella as Frankie Perello: The head of the Italian mob and father of Tommy 'Tombs' Perello. He is ultimately killed by Joey Gazelle when he attempts to shoot Oleg at the film's climax.

• John Noble as Ivan Yugorsky: The head of the Russian mob. He kills Anzor when he refuses to shoot his own son Oleg, yet he himself is killed by Frankie Perello when a shootout breaks out between the two mobs.

• Idalis DeLeon as Divina: The hooker that is first beaten and abused by Lester the pimp, but manages to knock him out while he is threatening Oleg with his knife. She helps Oleg in his plight by getting him medication for his asthma and taking him to a diner to eat. She is representative of the "Blue Fairy". ^[4]

• David Warshofsky as Lester the Pimp: The cruel pimp that ultimately ends up with the gun after he buys it from a car mechanic. He shoots Joey Gazelle when he tries to protect Oleg from danger at the film's end. Lester is representative of the "Mad Hatter". ^[5]

• Jim Tooey as Tony the Hitman: Working for the Perello Family. He is the person who hands Oleg his food and gets shot in the head at the end in the shootout.

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Box office

• Opening Weekend: $3,381,974 on 1611 screens ($2,099 per a theater average)^[6]
• Domestic Total Gross: $6,855,137^[6]
• Foreign Total Gross: $2,444,539^[6]
• Worldwide Total Gross: $9,299,676 ^[6]

References

External links

• Official film website
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• Running Scared at the Internet Movie Database
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• Running Scared at Box Office Mojo