The Running Boy

A hideaway lake in the mountains above Los Angeles. A reclusive bachelor. A woman journalist on the run with a mystery boy... just a step ahead of a pair of hired killers. These are the initial ingredients of this full-throttle nonstop chase thriller which accelerates from the opening pages to its breathtaking finale. Eight-year-old Andrei Andy Morozov possesses a secret that could bring down the new Russian president a media darling who conceals imperial ambitions. With geopolitical stakes this high a secret directive is given--the boy must be hunted down and silenced forever. Thus from the heart-pounding opening sequence the thrilling helter-skelter race is on. Yet as we see in vivid flashback this is only the deadly home stretch of a six-months' pursuit that began explosively in Moscow and has careened across Europe and America to reach its lethal climax amid the neon dazzle of the Russian neighborhoods of West Hollywood.