a wild and hardball comic adventure that star robert de niro a jack walsh and a sarcastic bounty hunter who be send to the big apple to bring back jonathon the duke mardukas ( charles grodin ) and an accountant ( who jump bail ) back to l. a. in four day . walsh bos and eddie moscone ( joe pantilano ) define it a a midnight run . get it . the only thing that walsh doesn not suspect that mardukas former bos and jimmy serrano ( dennis farina ) and a hot tempered la vegas mobster and have order the hit on the duke for donate a large amount of serrano money to charity . besides deal with the mob and the two men must dodge the fed and alonzo mosley ( yaphet kotto ) and an fbi agent who determine to get back at walsh for snatch his badge and marvin dorfler ( john ashton ) and a fellow bounty hunter who try to get mardukas for less money . what make the movie work so well . director martin brest ( beverly hill cop and scent of a woman ) and screenwriter george gallo let the film go at a steady pace and in the scene where de niro and grodin aren not be chase or shoot at . mardukas try now and then to get walsh to open up and tell him about his past . one perfect example of that be when jack and jon go visit the home of where jack ex wife and daughter live . the performance here in this film be nothing short of excellent and show how great of a director that brest himself be .