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We next see Doc being released from prison and meeting the team he is to rob the dog track with. By chance one of his team is Rudy, with whom he pulled off th |
We next see Doc being released from prison and meeting the team he is to rob the dog track with. By chance one of his team is Rudy, with whom he pulled off th |
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e jail break a year ago, along with another man called Hansen (Hoffman), who has army experience but is relatively new to the profession—it is probably his first job. They break into the dog track as planned, but while Doc is breaking into the vault, a guard tries to pull a gun and is shot by Hansen in a panic, much to the dismay of both Rudy and Doc. They escape the dog track by creating a huge diversion with a bomb under a gas truck and successfully leave with the bag of cash. The plan was for Doc and his wife to meet Rudy and Hansen later to split the money. On the way to meet Doc, Rudy kills Hansen and pushes him out of the car in order to have all the money to himself. On arriving at the rendezvous point, Doc questions where Hansen is and Rudy pulls a gun to kill Doc also. However Doc, knowing Rudy's character, knew he would do that and is ready with his own weapon and shoots Rudy, but not killing him as Doc thinks he has. Doc and his wife drive off with all the money, leaving Rudy for dead, but he was wearing a bullet vest. Rudy manages to drive off wounded, and finds shelter and medical attention at a local vet clinic. There he meets Harold (Stephens) and his wife Fran (Tilly), who treat his wounds and are taken hostage on route to El Paso. Fran is quite taken with Rudy and |
e jail break a year ago, along with another man called Hansen (Hoffman), who has army experience but is relatively new to the profession—it is probably his first job. They break into the dog track as planned, but while Doc is breaking into the vault, a guard tries to pull a gun and is shot by Hansen in a panic, much to the dismay of both Rudy and Doc. They escape the dog track by creating a huge diversion with a bomb under a gas truck and successfully leave with the bag of cash. The plan was for Doc and his wife to meet Rudy and Hansen later to split the money. On the way to meet Doc, Rudy kills Hansen and pushes him out of the car in order to have all the money to himself. On arriving at the rendezvous point, Doc questions where Hansen is and Rudy pulls a gun to kill Doc also. However Doc, knowing Rudy's character, knew he would do that and is ready with his own weapon and shoots Rudy, but not killing him as Doc thinks he has. Doc and his wife drive off with all the money, leaving Rudy for dead, but he was wearing a bullet vest. Rudy manages to drive off wounded, and finds shelter and medical attention at a local vet clinic. There he meets Harold (Stephens) and his wife Fran (Tilly), who treat his wounds and are taken hostage on route to El Paso.On this journey Rudy sits in the back and alternatively flirts with Fran while mocking Harold by rubbing fried chicken on his face and putting fries down his shirt.He also refuses to allow Harold to stop to take a pee. He makes Harold pee in his trousers while driving. Fran is quite taken with Rudy and flirts back with him on this journey. She even jumps into the back of the car with him voluntarily as they have a food fight with fried chicken and fries but at this point Rudy flips and screams at her to get the hell in the front with her husband. The next scene cuts to a motel room where Harold is tied up in a seedy bathroom motel and gagged. We hear the sounds of wild sex taking place and judging by Harolds agitated expressions it is clear his wife Fran is having voluntay wild sex with Rudy and screaming the house down as Rudy pleasures her. Harold manages to move his chair to see what is happening as Fran rides Rudy on top. Rudy calles Harold a "pervert" and Fran pushes the door shut while laughing at her husband. A distraught Harold commits suicide by hanging himself shortly thereafter. Fran and Rudy continue to race towards El Paso. |
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Doc and his wife go to the mob boss Jack Benyon's house to give him his share of the money, where Benyon tells Doc that he only agreed to hire him if his wife slept with him beforehand. As Doc is counting the money, we see Doc's wife approaching with a gun, which Doc can't see. She shoots Benyon, much to Doc's shock. We learn that the agreement she had was to kill Doc, but she changes her mind and kills Benyon instead. She says she only did it to get him out of prison and she loves him. This causes tension between the pair until the end of the film. Further tension arises when Doc and Carol almost lose the money at a train station in Flagstaff. Carol is dropped off at the terminal while Doc parks the car. As she puts the bag in a terminal locker, she is helped by a con man who switches the locker keys and takes the bag. Carol and Doc pursue the con man through the terminal and Doc manages to chase him onto a train while Carol is left behind at the terminal. Doc recovers the bag and returns to the terminal for Carol. |
Doc and his wife go to the mob boss Jack Benyon's house to give him his share of the money, where Benyon tells Doc that he only agreed to hire him if his wife slept with him beforehand. As Doc is counting the money, we see Doc's wife approaching with a gun, which Doc can't see. She shoots Benyon, much to Doc's shock. We learn that the agreement she had was to kill Doc, but she changes her mind and kills Benyon instead. She says she only did it to get him out of prison and she loves him. This causes tension between the pair until the end of the film. Further tension arises when Doc and Carol almost lose the money at a train station in Flagstaff. Carol is dropped off at the terminal while Doc parks the car. As she puts the bag in a terminal locker, she is helped by a con man who switches the locker keys and takes the bag. Carol and Doc pursue the con man through the terminal and Doc manages to chase him onto a train while Carol is left behind at the terminal. Doc recovers the bag and returns to the terminal for Carol. |
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| The Getaway | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Roger Donaldson |
| Written by | Jim Thompson (novel) Walter Hill Amy Jones |
| Produced by | David Foster John Alan Simon Lawrence Turman Marilyn Vance |
| Starring | Alec Baldwin Kim Basinger Michael Madsen James Woods Philip Seymour Hoffman Jennifer Tilly |
| Cinematography | Peter Menzies Jr. |
| Edited by | Conrad Buff |
| Music by | Mark Isham |
| Distributed by | Universal Studios |
Release date | February 11, 1994 |
Running time | 115 min. |
| Country | U.S. |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $30,057,974 (worldwide)[1] |
The Getaway is a 1994 crime thriller and a remake of the 1972 film of the same name. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jennifer Tilly, and was directed by Roger Donaldson.
Plot
Married couple Doc (Baldwin) and Carol (Basinger) McCoy drink beer and shoot at empty tin cans in the desert. Carol tries out several handguns and decides she prefers the bigger .45 caliber autoloader. Rudy (Madsen) arrives on a motorcycle and proposes the three break a Mexican drug lord's son out of jail in order to gain a $300,000 payment. They carry out the job successfully, but it turns out the drug lord only wanted his son out to kill him for failing to pay a huge debt. Rudy is waiting outside with the getaway plane, but upon seeing police cars start to close in, leaves, and Doc is left behind and arrested. The next scene is in a Mexican jail where Doc has spent the last year in prison. His wife visits him and learns that Doc has heard about a mob boss who is looking to put together a select team of experts that can rob a dog track in Arizona. As Doc has a lot of experience, he asks his wife to contact the mob boss, Jack Benyon, in a deal that would see him released from prison if he pulls off the job. The wife meets with the boss who agrees to hire him.
We next see Doc being released from prison and meeting the team he is to rob the dog track with. By chance one of his team is Rudy, with whom he pulled off th e jail break a year ago, along with another man called Hansen (Hoffman), who has army experience but is relatively new to the profession—it is probably his first job. They break into the dog track as planned, but while Doc is breaking into the vault, a guard tries to pull a gun and is shot by Hansen in a panic, much to the dismay of both Rudy and Doc. They escape the dog track by creating a huge diversion with a bomb under a gas truck and successfully leave with the bag of cash. The plan was for Doc and his wife to meet Rudy and Hansen later to split the money. On the way to meet Doc, Rudy kills Hansen and pushes him out of the car in order to have all the money to himself. On arriving at the rendezvous point, Doc questions where Hansen is and Rudy pulls a gun to kill Doc also. However Doc, knowing Rudy's character, knew he would do that and is ready with his own weapon and shoots Rudy, but not killing him as Doc thinks he has. Doc and his wife drive off with all the money, leaving Rudy for dead, but he was wearing a bullet vest. Rudy manages to drive off wounded, and finds shelter and medical attention at a local vet clinic. There he meets Harold (Stephens) and his wife Fran (Tilly), who treat his wounds and are taken hostage on route to El Paso.On this journey Rudy sits in the back and alternatively flirts with Fran while mocking Harold by rubbing fried chicken on his face and putting fries down his shirt.He also refuses to allow Harold to stop to take a pee. He makes Harold pee in his trousers while driving. Fran is quite taken with Rudy and flirts back with him on this journey. She even jumps into the back of the car with him voluntarily as they have a food fight with fried chicken and fries but at this point Rudy flips and screams at her to get the hell in the front with her husband. The next scene cuts to a motel room where Harold is tied up in a seedy bathroom motel and gagged. We hear the sounds of wild sex taking place and judging by Harolds agitated expressions it is clear his wife Fran is having voluntay wild sex with Rudy and screaming the house down as Rudy pleasures her. Harold manages to move his chair to see what is happening as Fran rides Rudy on top. Rudy calles Harold a "pervert" and Fran pushes the door shut while laughing at her husband. A distraught Harold commits suicide by hanging himself shortly thereafter. Fran and Rudy continue to race towards El Paso.
Doc and his wife go to the mob boss Jack Benyon's house to give him his share of the money, where Benyon tells Doc that he only agreed to hire him if his wife slept with him beforehand. As Doc is counting the money, we see Doc's wife approaching with a gun, which Doc can't see. She shoots Benyon, much to Doc's shock. We learn that the agreement she had was to kill Doc, but she changes her mind and kills Benyon instead. She says she only did it to get him out of prison and she loves him. This causes tension between the pair until the end of the film. Further tension arises when Doc and Carol almost lose the money at a train station in Flagstaff. Carol is dropped off at the terminal while Doc parks the car. As she puts the bag in a terminal locker, she is helped by a con man who switches the locker keys and takes the bag. Carol and Doc pursue the con man through the terminal and Doc manages to chase him onto a train while Carol is left behind at the terminal. Doc recovers the bag and returns to the terminal for Carol.
Their plan is to meet their contact in El Paso to get new passports and identities so they can escape to Mexico, but Benyon's men also want the money they stole and pursue them to the hotel in El Paso to kill them. When they get to the hotel, they check into their room, but Benyon's men and Rudy also arrive for the money, and a long gun fight ensues between Doc, Rudy and Benyon's men. Eventually Doc manages to kill Rudy and most of the men pursuing him. Doc and Carol escape the hotel and make it to the border of Mexico, where they purchase a truck from a stranger and drive off into the sunset.
Cast
- Alec Baldwin as Carter "Doc" McCoy
- Kim Basinger as Carol McCoy (Basinger was married to Baldwin at the time of filming)
- Michael Madsen as Rudy Travis
- James Woods as Jack Benyon
- David Morse as Jim Deer Jackson
- Jennifer Tilly as Fran Carvey
- James Stephens as Harold Carvey, DVM
- Richard Farnsworth as Slim
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as Frank Hansen
- Burton Gilliam as Gollie
- Elske McCain as Driver
Production
Filming locations
The film is a criminal road trip movie taking the couple across the American southwest. Locations in the script include Phoenix and Flagstaff, Arizona, New Mexico, and border town El Paso, Texas. Standing in for these communities, the film was actually shot in Tucson, Yuma, Phoenix, and The Apache Lodge in Prescott, Arizona. An exterior, establishing shot for one scene is believed to have been filmed in San Luis del Río, Sonora, Mexico. The location portrayed as the Border Hotel in El Paso is the Hotel Del Sol (formerly Hotel Del Ming) in Yuma, Arizona.
This film is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway. Some character names and locations are changed. The writers and producers did not make this version of the film more faithful to Jim Thompson's novel than Peckinpah's version; the 'El Rey' ending from the novel was not included in this film.
Release
- The film was given an R rating in theaters and later unrated on home video. The original was rated PG and later re-rated R. This film is rated R for violence, sexuality and language.