Fair Game (1995 film)
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| Directed by | Andrew Sipes |
| Produced by | Joel Silver |
| Written by | Novel: Paula Gosling Screenplay: Charlie Fletcher |
| Starring | William Baldwin Cindy Crawford Steven Berkoff Christopher McDonald Salma Hayek |
| Music by | Mark Mancina |
| Cinematography | Richard Bowen |
| Editing by | David Finfer Steven Kemper Christian Wagner |
| Studio | Silver Pictures |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | November 3, 1995 |
| Running time | 91 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30,000,000 (estimated)[1] |
| Box office | $11,534,477[2] |
Fair Game is a 1995 action film directed by Andrew Sipes. It stars Cindy Crawford as family law attorney Kate McQuean and William Baldwin as Max Kirkpatrick, a Florida police officer. Kirkpatrick ends up on the run to protect McQuean when she is targeted for murder by ex-members of the KGB with interests in a ship owned by a Cuban man who may lose it in a divorce case being pursued by McQuean.
The film is based on Paula Gosling's novel of the same name, which was previously adapted into the 1986 Sylvester Stallone film Cobra.
Locations used for the film included Coral Gables, Florida, Miami Beach, and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
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[edit] Plot summary
Kate McQuean (Cindy Crawford) is a Miami lawyer who—in the course of a divorce proceeding—attempts to seize a 157-foot freighter docked off the Florida coast in lieu of unpaid alimony.
The freighter is the current base of operations of Ilya Pavel Kazak (Steven Berkoff), a former KGB agent who has become an international money laundering expert, and he has also become the leader of a group of terrorists.
When Kate is unintentionally hit by a stray bullet, Miami detective Max Kirkpatrick (William Baldwin) is assigned to the case, and then an attempt is made on Kate's life.
Max becomes her protector, as it turns out that Kazak wants Kate dead. Max and Kate travel throughout Florida, dealing with Kazak's henchmen along the way. When Kazak has Kate kidnapped and taken to the freighter, Max boards the freighter in an attempt to rescue Kate. The film ends when Max and Kate decide to blow up the freighter, to put an end to the whole mess, after Kate refuses to give Kazak the city's money. As the freighter sinks, Kate says to Max, "You owe me a new boat." The duo laughs as a rescue helicopter picks them up.
[edit] Cast
- William Baldwin - Max Kirkpatrick
- Cindy Crawford - Kate McQuean
- Steven Berkoff - Colonel Ilya Kazak
- Christopher McDonald - Lieutenant Meyerson
- Miguel Sandoval - Emilio Juantorena
- Johann Carlo - Jodi Kirkpatrick
- Salma Hayek - Rita
- John Bedford Lloyd - Det. Louis Aragon
- Olek Krupa - Zhukov
- Jenette Goldstein - Rosa
- Dan Hedaya - Walter Hollenbach (uncredited)
[edit] Reception
[edit] Box Office
Fair Game is considered to be a box office bomb, grossing only USD$11.5 million out of a $55 million dollar budget.[3]
[edit] Critical Reception
Fair Game was panned by critics, garnering a rating of just 13%, or 2.4/10, on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Most critics singled out Crawford's poor acting, with Liam Lacey of the Globe and Mail saying that "One could scavenge the thesaurus to find synonyms for 'awkward' to describe Crawford's performance." [4] It was nominated for three Razzie Awards, for Worst Actress (Crawford), Worst New Star (Crawford) and Worst Screen Couple (Crawford and Baldwin).[5]
[edit] See also
- Cobra, a 1986 film based on the same book
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113010/business
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fairgame.htm
- ^ "Ace Cashes In With $40.3-Million Opening : Movies: It's five box office smashes in a row for Jim Carrey as his new comedy is reported to be attracting a diverse audience.". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1995-11-13/entertainment/ca-2664_1_jim-carrey. Retrieved 2010-12-22.
- ^ Fair Game at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Fair Game awards at the Internet Movie Database
