The Getaway (1994 film)

Infobox Film
name = The Getaway


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caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Roger Donaldson
producer = David Foster
John Alan Simon
Lawrence Turman
writer = Jim Thompson (novel)
Walter Hill
Amy Jones
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starring = Alec Baldwin
Kim Basinger
music = Mark Isham
cinematography = Peter Menzies Jr.
editing = Conrad Buff
distributor = Universal Pictures (USA)
released = 1994
runtime = 115 min.
country = U.S.
language = English
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amg_id = 1:123091
imdb_id = 0109890

"The Getaway" is a 1994 remake of the 1972 film starring Steve McQueen. The movie stars Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jennifer Tilly and James Woods. The film was directed by Roger Donaldson, who also directed "The Recruit", "Thirteen Days", "Dante's Peak", and "Species".

Plot summary

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 fourth person out of jail in order to gain a $300,000 payment, (which the three would ostensibly split between them). The job turns out to be a doublecross, however, and for the remainder of the film, the McCoys are on the run from the mob boss who got McCoy out of jail, Travis, and the law.

This film is a remake of "The Getaway (1972 film)." 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 Sam Peckinpah's 1972 version; the 'El Rey' ending from the novel was not included in this film.

elected cast

*Alec Baldwin as Doc McCoy
*Kim Basinger as Carol McCoy
*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

Filming locations

The film is a criminal road trip movie taking the couple across the American southwest. Locations in the script include Phoenix, Flagstaff, Arizona, New Mexico and border town El Paso, Texas. Standing in for these communities, the film was actually shot in Yuma, Phoenix, and 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 believed to be in Yuma, Arizona.

Continuity errors

* In an early scene at the Border Hotel, a character puts the barrel of a loaded revolver into hotelier Gollie's mouth and cocks the hammer of the revolver. After a cut four seconds later, the hammer is no longer cocked.
* Elevators that move up and down the hoistway on a cable are called "overhead traction" elevators. Since the early 1900s, elevators have had safety devices that prevent the elevator car from plummeting down the hoistway if the cable breaks.
* The wrong starter sound is used for the Forest-Service-green, Club-Cab Dodge pickup seen in the last ten minutes of the film. 1960s Dodge starter motors have a unique sound.

Ratings

* This version of 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.

Trivia

*The gun that Doc uses appears to be a Benelli M3.
*Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger were married at the time this film was made. Their predecessors, Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, became romantically involved during the making of the original, and were also married soon after.

External links

*imdb title|id=0109890|title=The Getaway (1994)