The Rundown
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| Directed by | Peter Berg |
| Produced by |
Marc Abraham Bill Corless Karen Glasser Kevin Misher |
| Screenplay by | R.J. Stewart James Vanderbilt |
| Story by | R.J. Stewart |
| Starring |
The Rock Seann William Scott Christopher Walken Rosario Dawson Ewen Bremner Jon Gries |
| Music by | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| Cinematography | Tobias A. Schliessler |
| Edited by | Richard Pearson |
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North America/Japan: Universal Pictures International: Columbia Pictures |
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Portuguese |
| Budget | $85 million |
| Box office | $80.9 million |
The Rundown (also known as Welcome to the Jungle) is a 2003 American action comedy film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a bounty hunter who must head for Brazil to retrieve his employer's renegade son (Seann William Scott). It was directed by Peter Berg. The film received positive reviews but failed at the box office.
Beck (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is a "retrieval expert", a bounty hunter who collects debts for a man named Billy Walker (William Lucking). He is dispatched to a nightclub to retrieve a championship ring from a football player, and after doing so is assaulted by one of Walker's other collectors. Angry, he confronts Walker and tells him that he wants out of the business. Walker talks him into one last bounty - retrieve Walker's son Travis (Seann William Scott) from a small mining town in Brazil and Walker will give him enough money to open his own restaurant. Beck accepts and leaves for Brazil. When Beck arrives in the town of El Dorado he meets with the man running the mining operation, Mr. Hatcher (Christopher Walken). Hatcher gives Beck his blessing to grab Travis, but reneges when he finds out that Travis has discovered a missing golden artifact called "El Gato do Diabo". Beck confronts Hatcher and his men in the local bar and leaves with Travis. On the way back to the airfield, Travis forces their Jeep off the road and into the jungle. There he tries to escape but is re-captured by Beck. After an unfortunate encounter with some local monkeys, the two find themselves in the camp of the local resistance movement.
At the resistance encampment, Travis convinces the rebels that Beck works for Hatcher and was sent to kill them all. After a prolonged fight, Beck gains the upper hand before the rebel leader Mariana (Rosario Dawson) intervenes. She wants Travis, as the Gato can be used to ensure the locals can free themselves from Hatcher. Hatcher suddenly attacks the camp, killing many rebels. Beck, Travis, and Mariana escape the camp and Beck makes Mariana a deal: she helps him get Travis to the airfield in exchange for the Gato. After some searching, Travis leads them to a cave behind a waterfall where the Gato is located. They retrieve it and begin the journey back.
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