On The Run

A protracted piece of whimsy in which a meek young man is dragged from one threatening situation to another by a colorful childhood friend who's just broken out of jail. "I'm a travel agent who's never been anywhere," wails Albert DeSantis (Michael Imperioli) near the end of his long night of adventuring. His old pal Louis Salazar (John Ventimiglia), by contrast, claims to have been everywhere and seen everything; of course, more than half of what Louis says is an outright lie, and the rest is presented in a thoroughly self-serving light. A balding blowhard who isn't half as charming as he thinks he is, Louis also has the smarts of a frying pan — why else woul...