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Writers (WGA):
Jim Thompson (novel)
Walter Hill (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
11 February 1994 (USA) more
Tagline:
Choosing between love and money is one thing. Getting away with both is something else more
Plot:
Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
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(3 articles)
Kim Basinger in talks to play Zac Efron’s mum in ‘Charlie St. Cloud’
(From Reel Loop. 15 August 2009, 6:35 AM, PDT)
Director Roger Donaldson In Talks To Helm Paranoid Thriller
(From iCelebz. 26 May 2009, 2:52 AM, PDT)
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The big gundown more (43 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Alec Baldwin | ... | Carter 'Doc' McCoy | |
| Kim Basinger | ... | Carol McCoy | |
| Michael Madsen | ... | Rudy Travis | |
| James Woods | ... | Jack Benyon | |
| David Morse | ... | Jim Deer Jackson | |
| Jennifer Tilly | ... | Fran Carvey | |
| James Stephens | ... | Harold Carvey, DVM | |
| Richard Farnsworth | ... | Slim | |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | ... | Frank Hansen (as Philip Hoffman) | |
| Burton Gilliam | ... | Gollie | |
| Royce D. Applegate | ... | Gun Shop Salesman | |
| Daniel Villarreal | ... | Luis Mendoza | |
| Scott McKenna | ... | Red Shirt | |
| Alex Colon | ... | Ramon | |
| Justin Williams | ... | Soldier |
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Rated R for violence, sexuality and language.
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Runtime:
115 min | Australia:116 min (uncut version)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | Iceland:16 | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Hungary:18 | Argentina:13 | Australia:R | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Norway:18 | Peru:14 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | USA:Unrated (original cut)
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Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa - 2400 E Missouri Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona, USA more
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During the scene where Carol (Basinger) is driving the car and Doc (Baldwin) is shooting from the back seat, a spent cartridge ejected from the gun hit Basinger on the lip. Filming stopped for over a week while the wound healed. more
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Continuity: The last time Doc fires the shotgun from the taxi it switches from his right to left to right hand. more
Quotes:
Rudy Travis: It's been my experience that having friends is overrated. more
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Version of The Getaway (1972) more
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CARMELITA more
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Roger Donaldson's remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1972 gangster movie classic "The Getaway" is alright, but cannot - as many remakes - reach the power, humor and style of the original version. There are some plus points - the bloody and lengthened showdown in the hotel at the end tries to overpower the impact of the original version, and it works.
There are some good supporting roles from James Woods and Michael Madsen (with dreadful hair style that belongs rather into an Ace Ventura or Wayne's World movie). The plot, even many story details, are just repetitions of the Peckinpah movie, but the tempo of the film is okay as well.
Otherwise there are also too many low points: the score is boring and can't compete with Quincy Jones' original jazz funk fusion grooves. The photography is to clean despite all the Mexican dust and sometimes too MTV style and without the dirty atmosphere that was typical for many Peckinpah movies.
Kim Basinger is alright in the Ali McGraw role, but Alec Baldwin is trying too hard to copy an image of Steve McQueen which isn't working at all. The dialogues aren't as witty as with McQueen and McGraw, and Donaldson would have done a far better job if he could have managed to give an individual life to this picture instead of just doing a 1994 techno grunge remix of an early seventies classic.
Anyway, if you like to watch an entertaining contemporary gangster and road movie, the 1993 version of "The Getaway" is still fun to watch. But if you have the choice to take the original VHS or DVD, skip the remake.