Filmmakers are a strange breed, and none more so than the people behind The Runner, a rite-of-passage police procedural, which tries on every genre for size, but never really settles into any of them.
Writer Jason Chase Tyrrell and director Michelle Danner clearly have a great concept here, which is frenetic and packed with potential, but nothing really fits together. Aiden (Edouard Philipponnat) is our central protagonist, who has a fraught relationship with his mother, who works hard but remains blind to her son and his behaviour.
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