Run Lola Run

What a blast! German writer/director Tom Tykwer tells one story three times, varying the outcome with each go-round: The constant is resourceful redhead Lola (Franka Potente), a scruffy beauty with a scream that shatters glass and a boyfriend named Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who's messed up a job for a small-time crime lord and better come up with a whole lot of money in 20 minutes or he's dead meat. Manni calls Lola, and Lola comes running — literally. She bolts out of the house and tears through the streets, nimble brain going as fast as her feet in search of some way out of what appears to be an impossible test of devotion. Granted, this sounds like the same old ...