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Release Date: August 24, 2012
On DVD: December 21, 2012
Genre: Action, Suspense
Director: John Kamps
Writer: David Koepp
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Jamie Chung
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Running Time: 91 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for some violence, intense action sequences and language

The film centers on a New York bike messenger (Gordon-Levitt) who picks up an envelope at Columbia University, only to be chased throughout the city by a dirty cop desperate to get his hands on it.

Shannon plays the deceptively affable cop with a violent temper. Chung would play Gordon-Levitt's ex, a fellow daredevil bike messenger who helps him outwit the cop....

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While lawyers, policemen and doctors get television show after television show, bike messengers get nada. Hell, truck drivers in Alaska get a television show. Packrats do, too. How many shows are there about bike messengers? A big fat zero. Not anymore! Bike messengers finally get their day in the spotlight, and not on television - in a big-screen movie starring big-screen actors, depicting just how awesome their low-paid jobs are. Especially when corrupt cops and Chinese smugglers are involved.

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