PLOT SUMMARY: Chloe, who is wheelchair-bound, begins to suspect her mother may be keeping a secret of the true nature of her illness.
Health is the most important aspect of our lives. How we feel, what we can achieve, all of it depends on how healthy we are. If we have good health, we can spend more time doing the things we love and eating food that we like. If we suffer from ailments, it hinders our daily activities. Depending on the ailment, we can manage our issues, but most of our time is spent dealing with health issues than building ourselves.
So yeah, health is wealth, as the saying goes. If you have your health, you can focus on making money as well.
Yes, for some odd reason, the movie Run, has a weird opening sequence.
We see a woman called Diane looking upset after her delivery. She’s wheeled into another ward where she sees her frail baby barely breathing on her own. She frantically asks if the baby is going to be okay.
Then we see several definitions of diseases after which the title:
Run.
So basically, if you suffer from all these ailments, run...if you can. Run from your problems? Run from what after informing us of all these diseases?
RUN Movie Plot
We then meet Chloe, a wheelchair-bound teenage girl who is actually quite capable. She wakes up early, throws up, dreams about going off to college, has breakfast with Diane, her mother who gives her a lot of pills. Then her sugar level is checked and if it is low, Chloe is awarded chocolate.
Then she is homeschooled by Diane, a parent who isn’t too perturbed by the fact that her daughter might be going off to college soon and she may suffer from
Empty nest syndrome. Why would she? She knows for a fact that is never going to happen.
Chloe is super excited though, still unaware of what her mother is up to. Every time the post van comes by, she excitedly rushes to the door only to find her mother has already picked up the mail and promises that she will let her know if there’s a letter from the colleges Chloe has applied to.
Then one day, while Diane is getting in the groceries and leaves the bags on the table to take a call, Chloe creeps over to steal some chocolates. Inside the bag, she finds a medicine bottle with a label on which Diane’s name is written.
Chloe is perplexed because she can’t understand what her mother may be taking medicine for. She opens it and sees the pill is a dull gray and green.
Later on, before going to bed, Diane pops in to give Chloe her medicines and she finds Diane’s pill in with her mix. Chloe comes clean about being a chocolate robber and a nosy girl who found pills belonging to someone else.
Diane allays her doubts and tells her those pills are hers but that the label she saw has a receipt attached to it that has Diane’s name on it. A receipt stuck on the label of a bottle...seems like a plausible explanation enough for Chloe to chug down the pill.
But her curiosity grows and one day when Diane is out, Chloe creeps into her mother’s room to take a look at the pill bottles and finds the label on the bottle with her name on it. Chloe is perplexed and a little relieved when she peels away the label to see another underneath with Diane’s name on it. Uh oh... what could Diane possible be suffering from and why isn’t she taking her pills?
Chloe notes down the name of the pill but unfortunately cannot investigate it online because she’s allowed access only in Diane’s presence. So when she goes down one night to check the medicine name online, she meets the pixelated dinosaur telling her the internet is down.
And Diane is possible watching. It’s hard to tell because she’s apparently sitting in the dark like a crazy person.
The next morning while Diane is gardening, Chloe comes up with a genius idea to call the pharmacy and ask what it is. The pharmacist recognizes her and Chloe thinking her mother might find out she’s playing detective, cuts the call. She tries to find another pharmacy through the operator but can’t go through with that either since the charges would show up on the bill. So she comes up with a weird idea to call a random number.
The guy who picks up is having an argument with his girlfriend and Chloe sweet talks him into helping her identify the new pill she hasn’t been swallowing down and hiding in her piggy bank. The guy tells her that her supposed heart medicine shouldn’t look like a capsule but a red pill.
Chloe is shocked and gets an asthma attack. The next morning she casually tells Diane that it has been a long time since they saw a movie. Diane takes her to watch an old movie and Chloe makes the obvious excuse to go to the washroom. She rushes out to the pharmacy across the street and cuts the line by drawing sympathy from the other customers. She bangs the pill on the counter and demands to know what it is.
The pharmacist immediately tells her that the medicine she’s taking is dog medicine and if ingested by humans, can cause leg paralysis.
Chloe has an asthma attack again but this time Diane is there to take her and comfort her.
Chloe awakens to find that she has been locked in her room. Downstairs, Diane is frantically trying to fix the mess by pleading to the pharmacist to lie about what she told Chloe. Of course, it isn’t going to work.
Realizing she can’t buy more toxic medicines for her daughter anymore, she decides to make her own and looks up the ingredients online and then goes shopping for them.
Finding her mother’s car gone, Chloe tries to pick the lock on her door. She’s smart and knows how to do it but Diane is one step ahead and knows her daughter’s proclivity to do exactly that so she has also pushed a rake through the handle.
But Chloe doesn’t give up. Despite her handicap, she crawls through the window, then on the roof to get to the other room. She succeeds only to suffer another asthma attack. She crawls to her room and manages to get to her inhaler. Then as she tries to get downstairs using the lift, she finds it doesn’t work anymore.
Looks like Diane anticipated Chloe’s every move except for the fact that her daughter was now going to throw herself off the stairs to escape. Chloe does exactly that and manages to get on her wheelchair and escape.
Diane was so confident about Chloe not escaping from her bedroom or using the stairs that she didn’t bolt down the front door.
Chloe manages to stop the mail truck, the only other vehicle that goes past her house. Diane is also approaching and sees Chloe.
She tells the mailman that her daughter is suffering side effects from the new medicine she’s taking but the mailman isn’t convinced. He finds Chloe’s story more convincing. Diane tells him to at least let her follow him to the hospital since she saw injuries on her daughter. He agrees but was so confident that Diane wouldn’t hurt him that he turns his back on her.
Of course, he’s murdered immediately. Never turn your back on someone accused of being a deranged person.
RUN Ending Explained with spoilers!
Chloe awakens to find herself back in the house where Diane is in the process of brewing a neurotoxin. As Diane is dealing with the mailman’s corpse, Chloe finds pictures of herself when she was a child and realizes she could walk. She finds a death certificate of the real Chloe and an article of a couple whose baby was stolen.
Chloe now understands Diane isn’t her mother and that she went crazy after her baby died and decided to steal a baby but handicap her on purpose so she can keep taking care of someone.
Diane appears and realizes her smart daughter put it all together. She did raise her and does still think of her as her daughter.
Chloe’s accusations do nothing to shake Diane’s conscience and so Chloe takes the extreme step of chugging down chemicals that would require emergence care.
Diane takes a moment to ponder if she can save Chloe but the minute she splutters our blood, Diane is out of choices.
Chloe is just about saved and Diane is stopped from meeting her until it is found out why her daughter tried to commit suicide. But this is Diane, a crazy person who has already stolen a baby from the hospital. She has a few tricks up her sleeve. Luckily there isn’t much security in the hospital and she can go to just any ward and pull the plugs on another patient.
Chloe convinces the nurse to let her write and just about manages to write the letter M when Code Blue is called.
The nurse leaves and Diane comes to kidnap Chloe again.
Chloe has pretty much given up but realizes she’s in the campus of her university she always dreamed of going to. This gives her the motivation to pull the brakes on her wheelchair.
Meanwhile, the nurse returns to the room and finds Chloe gone. She wonders why a patient was moved during Code Blue and then sees Chloe’s pad on which she wrote Mom.
The security is called and while Diane is trying to figure out the wheelchair brakes, is shot as she too pulls a gun.
Chloe watches Diane fall off the escalator and is comforted by the nurses.
Seven years later, Chloe has managed to regain some movement in her leg but needs support. She goes to see Diane in the correction facility and brags about becoming a doctor and designing prosthetics for children. She also has a husband and child. Chloe sure moved fast in these seven years.
Diane is mute and looks on while Chloe asks her mom to open wide and then thrusts the dog pills into her mouth.
An eye for an eye.
Scare scale: 3/5
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