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The Real McCoy (film)

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The Real McCoy
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRussell Mulcahy
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDenis Crossan
Edited byPeter Honess
Music byBrad Fiedel
Production
companies
Bregman/Baer Productions, inc.
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • September 10, 1993 (1993-09-10)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
Budget$24 million
Box office$6,484,246

The Real McCoy is a 1993 crime film, directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer and Terence Stamp.[1]

Plot

Karen McCoy (Kim Basinger) is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated, Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life.

Unfortunately, between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex-husband, McCoy will have to do the unthinkable to save her son (Zack English) and new heartthrob J.T. (Val Kilmer): Another bank job.

Cast

Reception

The film earned negative reviews from critics and was a box office bomb. The Real McCoy currently holds a 19% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10.[2] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 2 stars, saying, "... "The Real McCoy" took me back to... heist movies where a bank vault was subjected to high-tech manipulations by athletic super-crooks... those same scenes apparently took the film's authors back to the very same sources, since "The Real McCoy" recycles the same devices, not quite as well as the originals."[3]

References

  1. ^ Canby, Vincent (September 10, 1993). "A Burglar, Once, but Also a Mom". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  2. ^ "The Real McCoy (1993)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  3. ^ Ebert, Roger (September 10, 1993). "The Real McCoy". RogerEbert.com. Ebert Digital LLC. Retrieved April 17, 2018.

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