Weird thought: MIDNIGHT RUN (1988) is a great movie. Robert De Niro is terrific in it. Charles Grodin is terrific in it. But unusually for a two-hander, De Niro and Grodin don’t have great scene chemistry together in it. The scenes where their characters connect are rarer.
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Look at PLANES, TRAINS, & AUTOMOBILES (1987), where Steve Martin and John Candy have *amazing* chemistry as a different kind of antagonistic odd couple forced to share a similar trip in which everything that could possibly go wrong does.
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One thing I think contributes to this is that De Niro’s character is really examined in terms of who this guy is and Grodin’s character really is not. Grodin is more a vehicle for exploring and changing De Niro than he is a real person. A Manic Pixie Dream Grodin, one might say.
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