Running Out of Time
Let the games begin.
Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates.
- Director
- Johnnie To
- Worldwide
- $2M
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Cast
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What It's About
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Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates.
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Box Office & Release
Running Out of Time returned 8.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $225,000
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $2M
- Release date
- Sep 23, 1999
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- Cantonese, English
- Country
- Hong Kong
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