FilmStubs: Run Lola Run (1998)

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To accommodate seating capacity, ticket holders must check in no later than 5 minutes past the scheduled showtime. After this time, unclaimed reserved seats will be released to wait listed guests.

Lola (Franka Potente) answers a call from her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtru), a small-time courier for a big-time gangster. He has a problem: His boss is coming to pick up 100,000 Deutsche Marks in twenty minutes, and he doesn’t have the money. With Manni’s life on the line, Lola runs through the streets of Berlin to reach him and somehow pick up 100,000 marks along the way, making split-second decisions and encountering acquaintances, family, and strangers. As the clock ticks down, the tiniest choices become life-altering (or life-ending), and the fine line between fate and fortune begins to blur. [Sony Picture Classics]

Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtru
Director: Tom Tykwer
Language: German
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Comedy