Memorable, crazy movie

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Hiding Out was an excellent movie. A very underrated film and a guilty pleasure movie of mine. It has drama,suspense,thrills, romance and comedy. Keith Coogan is wonderful in his supporting role as cousin Patrick. John Spencer's small role was nice. Rewatching this movie on DVD recently I was surprised to see The View's Joy Behar in a small role as well. Hiding Out is a well acted and scripted movie. Annabeth Gish is lovely as Ryan and had wonderful and sweet chemistry with Jon Cryer. Ryan and Max's first date at the rollerskating ring is one of my favorite date movie moments. The soundtrack is great too. Pretty Poison's Catch Me I'm Falling and KD Land and Roy Orbson's Crying were incredible. This is my favorite Jon Cryer role and movie. Very entertaining.

Starring: Jon Cryer, Annabeth Gish. Director: Bob Giraldi*Contains Spoilers*There is an adage that if you see a shot in a film with a visible boom hanging over the actor's heads, then it is an easy indicator that the film is trash. Although an unfair test, while watching Hiding Out I counted no less that 15 boom-in-camera shots. It is difficult to suspend disbelief when not only is the boom microphone visible, the entire boom rod shifts across the screen following the actors walking across a shot.A classic fish out of water story gets an 80's teenage makeover in this flawed vehicle for the very talented John Cryer. Jon plays Andrew Morenski, a successful stockbroker in his late 20s wanted by mafia hitmen after a sour deal with a criminal kingpin. After a workmate is killed he flees, and with the aid of a razor and strategically placed hair dye, he passes himself of as a teenager back in high school.We are asked way too much of this film to go along with any of it. Firstly, his Aunty works as the high school nurse. Even if she never ran into him in the corridor, are we to believe that she wouldn't recognise one of the countless posters of him around the school, much less the fact that he's always hanging around? And even if he waits until his sweet girlfriend (Annabeth Gish) is in college until he can go out with her, she would still be at least 10 years younger than him. And why does the local 'Clinton Posse' adopt him as their nomination for School President when he clearly doesn't want the job?The script wants to suck out all those silly 'I've been in high school before' moments, which it does unconvincingly. The real gem of this film is Keith Coogan as Patrick, Andrew's teenage cousin. Coogan, who people might recognise from the 1987 hit Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, is charmingly silly as Patrick. His attempts at driving provide the few funny moments of the film. Cryer is stuck in a role that takes him nowhere fast. Without room to move and demonstrate at least some gravity or comic ability he is wasted in this dreary role. It is a shame to see that after his breakout eccentric performance as Ducky in Pretty in Pink this role in a top-billing movie is so run of the mill.After he is voted class President, the rest of the film is so formulaic that even fast-forwarding through the last scenes is tiring. Even though the 1980's were famed for the `its-so-bad-its-good' films, Hiding Out is so bad it's tragically not worth seeing.

a great film a bit drematic for the most part but worth seeing all together. Done very well and in most cases very believable for the most part. However it seems that it was hard to beleive he was as old as he claimed to be but a great film

My favorite scene is when the cast member "student" played by George Whitley (both I and II in IMDb records - actor and location mgr.) had his first and last claim to fame with a 3 bit part......those were the days......