James Caan later said he did this film instead of M*A*S*H*, adding, 'I was at odds - not screaming or fighting - with this guy, writer Howard Kreitsek. Marc Antony Van der Nagel as Nelson Angstrom.Although he promises to do so, Rabbit is still unable to make a commitment to anyone and runs away again. Fleeing from the cemetery, he goes to Ruth's apartment but Ruth, who is now pregnant with his child, refuses to let him in unless he agrees to divorce Janice and marry her.

Learning of his child's death, Rabbit returns home and finds that everyone holds him responsible.Īt the funeral, Rabbit responds to his parents' and in-laws' accusing glances by screaming his innocence. Janice resumes her solitary drinking, this time with tragic results while in a drunken stupor, she accidentally drowns the baby. For a time, they live in relative harmony, but Janice's insistence on a less active sex life leads to bitterness, and Rabbit again takes off. When Rabbit moves in with Ruth, Jack Eccles, the family minister, tries to persuade him to return to his wife, but Rabbit refuses.Įventually, Rabbit also becomes disenchanted with Ruth, and when Janice has her baby, Rabbit goes to the hospital and effects a reconciliation. Marty decides that Rabbit needs a woman, and he introduces him to Ruth, a part-time prostitute. Following an argument with Janice, Rabbit looks up his old basketball coach Marty Tothero, who is now living in squalor. In Reading, Pennsylvania, former high school basketball star Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is dissatisfied with both his failure to find a career and with his loveless marriage to Janice, an alcoholic who is pregnant with a child neither of them wants. Jack Eccles, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents.

The movie co-starred Jack Albertson as Coach Marty Tothero, Arthur Hill as Rev. The film starred James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth. The film was adapted from John Updike's 1960 novel by screenplay writer Howard B. Rabbit, Run is a 1970 American independent drama film directed by Jack Smight.

Rabbit, Run by John Updike