
Narrow Margin
dir. Peter Hyams
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An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.

Directed byPeter Hyams
StarringGene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B. Sikking, Harris Yulin, J. T. Walsh, M. Emmet Walsh
Written byEarl Felton, Peter Hyams
CinematographyPeter Hyams
MusicBruce Broughton
Narrow Margin
1990 · R · 1h 37m
Action, Thriller, Crime
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.
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