11.   Denied the luxury of a leisurely running time, Borsos wisely avoids dwelling on the survival skills that carry the boy-and-dog team through.

12.   Film studios are acutely aware of this and often require that a director turn in a finished film with a running time of no more than two hours.

13.   For one thing, a play with a running time of nearly three hours had to be condensed for film, requiring the elimination of several subplots.

14.   For most of its running time, director Tony Scott grips you with a story of two desperate lives on a collision course.

15.   For most of its running time, the movie just shoots blanks.

16.   Forty minutes is a strange running time for a movie.

17.   He also times each movie with a stopwatch because an accurate running time is important to foreign bookers.

18.   He later reduced the running time to something less than five hours.

19.   He told me that he was playing with the prescribed hormone doses that slowed the progress of his disease, but also slowed his running times.

20.   He turns a daunting running time to advantage, crafting each episode into a romantic cliffhanger.