A friend of mine is looking for a clip that will show two people handcuffed together who want to go different directions. Any ideas?

I wondered if there might be something in O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU, where the three guys are chained together in leg irons? Anybody know where to look in that one?

Any other scenes come to mind? Can be comic or dramatic or whatever.

DeNiro and Grodin are handcuffed together for a spell in Midnight Run. I can't remember if they try to run opposite directions, though.

Wasn't there a really bad movie with Laurence Fishburne and Steven Baldwin being handcuffed together?

Welp, my martial arts movie fandom will now rear it's booty kickin' head and recommend Drive, a Mark Dacascos flick that has a great fight scene in which he's handcuffed to Kadeem Hardison, a guy who definitely doesn't want to be there.

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Drive takes the standard American mismatched-buddies action comedy formula and turbo-charges it with furious Hong Kong wirework and martial arts. The result is a three-and-a-half million dollar \"B\" picture which looks like it cost 10 times more. The perfunctory story crosses Universal Solider (1992) with Rush Hour (1997) as a biologically enhanced Mark Dacascos flees a small army of Hong Kong assassins through California, teaming up with comedian Kadeem Hardison and delivering an almost unbelievable amount of bang per buck. Director Steve Wang stages the action with flair and clarity, the stunts, wirework and fights being exceptionally well-choreographed and shot. With Hardison's patter, two offbeat redneck assassins and a TV show about a frog with Einstein's brain there's abundant surprisingly genial humour, aided by Brittany Murphy's ditzy performance as a Twin Peaks-like teenager with hormones in overdrive. The cyborg aspect simply justifies the superhuman combat, but nevertheless a huge showdown in a retro-space age club is clearly styled after the \"Tech Noir\" bar sequence in The Terminator (1984), adding motorcycle killersstraight out of Rollerball (1975). Drive captures the rush of Hong Kong action movies yet almost has the feel of a musical, the mayhem replacing song and dance and offering more popcorn entertainment than many a bloated summer blockbuster.

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Wasn't there a really bad movie with Laurence Fishburne and Steven Baldwin being handcuffed together?

Good Lord. Fled.

Right up there with Ray Liotta's No Escape...

The Defiant Ones might be a good possiblity.

Well, the handcuffs are not metallurgical, but fleshly. Nevertheless, accept no substitutes.

Oh great RL, if this one has a commentary track I have the feeling I will be seeing it twice.

The originator of the old two-people-unwillingly-handcuffed-together cliche was, I believe, Alfred Hitchcock, who handcuffed Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll together in The 39 Steps (1935). Inimitable.

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Well, the handcuffs are not metallurgical, but fleshly.  Nevertheless, accept no substitutes.

Going that route, there is also Stuck on You. (Although the good part there is seeing them try to get along after being separated.)

Would the 1988 remake of D.O.A., in which Dennis Quaid Krazy-Glues his hand to Meg Ryan's, qualify on some level?

It's not a film, but I remember Ricky and Lucy suffering through part of an episode in this condition. In one scene, IIRC, they try to go to bed, but the cuffs would have each of them on "the wrong side" of the bed, and they go through Twister-like contortions trying to resolve this problem, to no effect of course.