Runner, The

[Opens Aug. 19 in theaters and available Aug. 23 on various digital and VOD platforms.] After a spoiled, hustling, messed-up, heroin-addicted high school student (Edouard Philipponnat), who is dealing drugs to his peers (Nadji Jeter, Kerri Medders, et al.) as his life is spiraling out of control, lands in prison when his concerned mother (Elisabeth Röhm) calls the police in Michelle Danner's gripping, gritty, award-winning, intense, dark, well-acted, 102-minute thriller, he reluctantly wears a wire and goes undercover working for a no-nonsense detective (Cameron Douglas) to take down a ruthless, menacing drug kingpin (Eric Balfour) during a dangerous sting operation monitored by the SWAT commander (Coleman McClary) and his team.
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