Tin Cup
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tin Cup |
| Original title | Tin Cup |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 129 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ron Shelton |
| script |
John Norville , Ron Shelton |
| production |
Gary Foster , David V. Lester , Arnon Milchan |
| music | William Ross |
| camera | Russell Boyd |
| cut |
Kimberly Ray , Paul Seydor |
| occupation | |
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Tin Cup is an American comedy film directed by Ron Shelton from 1996. The main roles were played by Kevin Costner and Rene Russo .
action
The formerly successful golfer Roy McAvoy lives off golf lessons in Texas . One day, the psychologist Dr. Molly Griswold to him. She wants to learn to play golf in order to impress her friend David Simms. Simms and McAvoy were once athletic rivals.
McAvoy falls in love with Dr. Griswold, she's reluctant at first. He starts at the US Open tournament , where he loses on the first day. In the afternoon he is ridiculed by Simms in a bar. Molly suggests a bet that Roy will hit a distant pier with the golf ball on which a pelican is sitting, which should then fly away in shock. However, the starting point is within a closed space. The ball should get through the room, the door, over the terrace and onto the lake. Roy manages the feat. After that he will get better in the tournament and take some good strokes. Molly sleeps with him.
Not only did McAvoy take some good hits, he even took the lead at the US Open. On the fourth and last day of the tournament he lies on the fairway of the eighteenth fairway and wants to reach the green with the second shot on the par 5. He tries this with a fairway wood (wood 3). Although the stroke is very difficult just because of the length, especially in view of the headwind and the water hazard in front of the green, McAvoy attacks the green. The ball also lands on the green, but does not reach the upper plateau of the green, where the flag is also in the hole. Instead, the ball rolls along the sloping front plateau of the green into the water hazard.
McAvoy could still win the tournament if he simply dropped the ball right in front of the water hazard and accepted a penalty stroke. He could still save Par then. Unreasonably, however, he decides against it, so that the drama is repeated several times, whereby he loses the victory. McAvoy doesn't give up, but wants to prove to himself and the world that he can do this. He tries until he actually hits the ball on the green and even punches it. This makes him the moral winner and has now finally captured Molly's heart.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on "ReelViews" that director Ron Shelton has already made some good sports films like White Boys Can't Do It . He praised Shelton for balancing the romantic and athletic strands of the plot.
Roger Ebert praised the script and dialogues of the film in the Chicago Sun-Times of August 16, 1996. He also praised the performance of supporting actors Don Johnson, Cheech Marin and Linda Hart.
Awards
Kevin Costner was nominated for a 1997 Golden Globe . Cheech Marin was nominated for the NCLR Bravo Award in 1996.
backgrounds
A Little Bit Is Better Than Nada by the American country musician Texas Tornados was used as the theme song .
Production costs were approximately 45 million US dollars . Was the location Golf Resort of Tubac in Arizona .
Web links
- Tin Cup at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tin Cup atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Tin Cup on www.prisma-online.de
Footnotes
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert
- ↑ Denis Krick: Golf Pilgrimage in Arizona: Do the McAvoy! In: Spiegel Online . May 9, 2012