Fled

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Fled
Fled poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Kevin Hooks
Produced by Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Written by Preston A. Whitmore II
Starring Laurence Fishburne
Stephen Baldwin
Will Patton
Robert John Burke
Salma Hayek
Music by Graeme Revell
Cinematography Matthew F. Leonetti
Editing by Richard Nord
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) July 19, 1996
Running time 98 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $25 million[1]
Box office $17,193,231[2]

Fled is a 1996 action film directed by Kevin Hooks. A remake of the 1958 film The Defiant Ones, the film stars Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin as two prisoners chained together flee during an escape attempt gone bad.

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Charles Piper (Laurence Fishburne) and Mark Dodge (Stephen Baldwin) are two convicts who end up shackled together due to fighting, the pervert Mill who incited the fight then steals a gun from an officer and wipes out half of the officers. Piper and Dodge take off and soon the Attorney General's office has U.S. Marshal Pat Schiller (Robert John Burke) on the case.

Informed of the escape, local cop Matthew "Gib" Gibson (Will Patton) starts getting suspicious of the feds' interest in Dodge, who Gibson had earlier arrested. Gibson finds that Dodge has a hidden computer disk that contains information that could be very damaging to Cuban crime boss Frank Mantajano (Michael Nader).

Piper, who turns out to be a cop on the case, and Dodge must stay out of the clutches of Mantajano's hit man Rico Santiago (Victor Rivers), and corrupt federal agents who want to retrieve the disk.

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Soundtrack [edit]

A soundtrack consisting of mostly hip hop and R&B music was released on July 15, 1996 by Rowdy Records. It peaked at #60 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Reception [edit]

Fled currently holds a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 29 reviews, with the average rating of 4.3/10. The film has also grossed $17,193,231 against its $25 million budget.

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