Running Scared
For over a decade Joey Gazelle has successfully juggled his conflicting roles as both loving family man and a low-level employee of the Italian Perello mob in Grimley, New Jersey. However, when Joey ignores the mob’s explicit instructions to dispose of a gun used in the fatal shooting of a corrupt cop during a bungled drug buy, he unwittingly puts his entire family in immediate danger. Joey stows this incriminating piece of evidence in his basement for possible future use as collateral against his employers, only to have his son’s best friend, Oleg, discover and abscond with the weapon.
Unaware that the disappearance of this weapon could jeopardize both Joey and himself, Oleg uses it to wound his abusive stepfather Anzor, the drug-addicted black sheep of the Russian Yugorsky mob, and then flees into the night. As he vainly seeks safe haven, Oleg encounters and dodges a slew of nocturnal miscreants, all the while being pursued by relentless Perello and Yugorsky henchmen as well as by the nefarious Detective Rydell, a corrupt cop who is hell-bent on profiting from the missing gun’s potentially disastrous effects on the already uneasy alliance between the rival Perello and Yugorsky clans.
Meanwhile, Joey, hot on Oleg’s trail and aided by both his wife Teresa and son, has embarked on a frantic night-long search, not only to locate Oleg and the gun, but also to save his own life and street credibility by keeping the gun’s disappearance a secret from both mob factions.
Directed by
Wayne Kramer
Cast
Paul Walker - Joey Gazelle
Cameron Bright - Oleg Yugorsky
Vera Farmiga - Teresa Gazelle
Karel Roden - Anzor Yugorsky
Johnny Messner - Tommy “Tombs” Perello
Ivana Milicevic - Mila Yugorsky
Chazz Palminteri - Detective Rydell
Alex Neuberger - Nicky Gazelle
Michael Cudlitz - Sal “Gummy Bear” Franzone
Bruce Altman - Dez
Elizabeth Mitchell - Edele
Production Co.
VIP Medienfonds Film & Entertainment (VIP Media Funds)
Pierce/Williams Entertainment
Rat Entertainment
True Grit Productions
Produced by
Stewart Hall
Andrew Pfeffer
Andreas Grosch
Studio
New Line Cinema
Writer
Wayne Kramer
Music
Mark Isham
