Getaway (1994)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Getaway |
| Original title | The Getaway |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roger Donaldson |
| script |
Walter Hill , Amy Holden Jones |
| production |
David Foster , John Alan Simon , Lawrence Turman |
| music | Mark Isham |
| camera | Peter Menzies Jr. |
| cut | Conrad Buff IV |
| occupation | |
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Getaway is an American feature film directed by Roger Donaldson and produced in 1994. It is a remake of the 1972 thriller Getaway and, like this one, is based on the Jim Thompson novel of the same name .
action
Carter “Doc” McCoy goes to a Mexican prison after a commissioned prisoner release and subsequent money delivery. His wife Carol sleeps with the influential criminal Jack Benyon, so that he can campaign for the release of Carter. After McCoy's release, Benyon demands that McCoy take part in a robbery in Arizona. Other gangsters are assigned to him. These include the inexperienced Hansen and the hard-nosed Rudy. Rudy and Carter know each other from the robbery that went wrong and hate each other. Carter tells the two gang members that he will get false papers after the robbery in El Paso.
During the robbery, Hansen puts the team in dire straits and he is murdered by Rudy and thrown on the street after the robbery. At the agreed meeting point, Rudy also wants to kill McCoy, but he suspects Rudy's plan and shoots him down. He thinks he killed him, but he only hurt him. Carter and Carol leave the scene. Rudy drags himself to the vet Harold and takes him and his wife Fran hostage. They take care of him and he travels with them towards El Paso. During this journey, he begins a sexual affair with Fran, who gives himself to him willingly. Harold has to watch and finally takes his own life. Carter drives his wife to Benyon, where Benyon happily talks about his affair with Carter's wife. Benyon had agreed to murder Carter with Carol, but she still loves Carter and shoots Benyon instead of Carter.
Carter and Carol escape with the stolen money to El Paso , where they get forged papers to flee to Mexico . But before that there is a showdown with the people from Benyon, who have tracked them down in a hotel. After shooting their opponents, including Rudy, they can continue to Mexico unhindered.
Reviews
- Desson Howe wrote in the Washington Post on February 11, 1994 that at the time of the actor couples Bruce Willis and Demi Moore , Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan , Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith , the couple Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger had nothing exciting to see. He praised some scenes with Jennifer Tilly.
- Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of February 11, 1994 that the film had a "dramatic depth" similar to that of a computer game.
- The Cinema wrote that is a masterpiece, "Sam Peckinpah's original with Steve McQueen in 1972", "this infusion in video aesthetics is not. Conclusion: remake without the fire of the original "
Awards
Kim Basinger was nominated for the MTV Movie Award in 1994 and for the Golden Raspberry in 1995 .
literature
- Jim Thompson : Getaway. Detective novel (Original title: Getaway ). First complete translation by Günther Panske and Klaus Timmermann . Diogenes, Zurich 1992, 220 pp., ISBN 3-257-22509-1 .
Web links
- Getaway in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Getaway at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Getaway in the Lexicon of International Films
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Washington Post"
- ↑ "Chicago Sun-Times"
- ↑ Cinema.de: film review