The Fugitive is a American film based on the television series of the same name. The film was directed by Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, and Tommy Lee Jones as Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Gerard. Jones won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. The supporting cast includes Andreas Katsulas as a one-armed man, Sela Ward as Kimble's wife, Jeroen Krabbé (who replaced Richard Jordan), Julianne Moore, Neil Flynn and Joe Pantoliano. The film was one of the few movies associated with a television series to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Plot

Dr. Richard Kimble, a successful vascular surgeon in Chicago, comes home one night to find his wife Helen fatally wounded by a man with a prosthetic arm, and though he attempts to subdue the killer, the man escapes. The lack of evidence of a break-in, fingerprints being found on the gun and the bullets, being the beneficiary of Helen's lucrative life insurance and a misunderstood 911 call lead the Chicago Police Department to charge Kimble with first-degree murder, and he is sentenced to death by lethal injection.