High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Midnight Run is a 1988 American action comedy film starring Robert De Niro (in his Golden Globe-nominated performance) as a bounty hunter and Charles Grodin as his prisoner. The film was later followed by three made-for-TV movies produced in 1994, which did not feature any of the principal actors, although a few characters are carried over from the first film. The sequels also had a much lighter tone than the original film, and did not seem to directly follow the canon established in the first film.