What happens when an actor/car
enthusiast decides to write and produce a movie and casts his girlfriend and
closest friends? Love it or hate it -- Dax Shepard's pet project ”Hit & Run”
is exactly what happens and exactly what
you would expect from such a project.
Shepard plays Yul Perkins. He is a
former bank robber and getaway driver who testified against his gang and is now
hiding out in a small town in the Witness Protection program.
Kristen Bell, Shepard's real-life
girlfriend, portrays Annie Bean - - his college professor girlfriend who has
been offered her career dream job in Los
Angeles
Perkins
decides to risk his own life in order to fulfill his girlfriend's career goals.
He just needs to get her to Los
Angeles
When Annie Bean
goes to her ex boyfriend’s house to get the conveniently forgotten teaching
certificate she needs for her interview, he notifies Yul Perkins’ former gang
members that Perkins is on his way to L.A.
The rest of
the film is a never-ending series of car chases.
According
to IMDb, Shepard used cars from his own collection in the film and even did his
own stunt driving.
There are
car chases on country roads, in fields, at an abandoned airport and anywhere
else one could be inserted whether there was a compelling reason for one or
not.
Dax
Shepard’s real-life pal and sexiest man in the world Bradley Cooper portrays
Alex the very unsexy, dreadlocked bank robber who is out for revenge and the
loot that Perkins hid before he ratted them out to the cops.
Kristen
Chenoweth, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Beau Bridges
The film
cost only $2 million dollars to make and took in about $14 million at the box
office making it a fairly successful venture and investment for Dax Shepard.
How
believable is “Hit & Run?” Tom Arnold portrays a U.S. Marshall who spends
more time accidentally discharging his gun into the public without consequence
and searching his smartphone gay sex hookup app than he does anything else. If
you can believe Arnold
“Hit &
Run”
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Steven Skelley is a published author of several nonfiction works and the novella The Gargoyle Scrolls. He has been a newspaper columnist, travel writer, news writer, music director, creative arts director, theater reviewer and tennis instructor.
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