Taglines: Choosing between love and money is one thing. Getting away with both is something else.
The Getaway movie storyline. Carter “Doc” McCoy and his wife Carol are taking target practice with pistols when Rudy arrives to propose they break a Mexican drug lord’s nephew out of jail for a $300,000 payment. The job is successful, but it turns out the drug lord wanted his nephew free to kill him.
Rudy is waiting with a getaway plane, but he sees police cars and leaves Doc behind. After a year in a Mexican jail, Doc sends Carol to mob boss Jack Benyon, who is looking to put together a select team of experts to rob a dog track in Arizona. Benyon agrees to get Doc released from prison, in exchange for sexual favors from Carol first.
Doc gets out and meets the men Benyon has hired. One is Rudy, along with Hansen, who seems inexperienced. Rudy extends a hand and says “No hard feelings” but is punched by Doc and warned not to double-cross him again. At the track, while Doc is breaking into the vault, a guard pulls a gun and is shot by Hansen in a panic. The thieves escape by creating a diversion with a bomb under a gas truck and leave with the cash. The plan was for Doc and Carol to meet Rudy and Hansen later to split the money. On the road, Rudy kills Hansen and pushes him out of the car.
Doc arrives at the rendezvous point, where Rudy again pulls a gun. Doc expected this and is ready with his own weapon, shooting Rudy and leaving him for dead. Doc and Carol drive off with all the money, unaware that Rudy was wearing a bullet-proof vest.
A wounded Rudy drives to a local clinic, where he holds veterinarian Harold and his wife Fran hostage, forces them to treat his wounds and drive him to El Paso. An attraction develops between Rudy and Fran and they taunt her meek husband. At a motel, Rudy has sex with Fran after tying Harold to a chair. Hearing his wife’s moans and her laughter at him, a heart-broken Harold commits suicide by hanging himself. Fran barely looks back as she accompanies Rudy to El Paso.
The Getaway is a 1994 crime film directed by Roger Donaldson. The screenplay was written by Walter Hill and Amy Holden Jones, based on the Jim Thompson novel of the same name. The film stars Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, with Michael Madsen, James Woods, and Jennifer Tilly in supporting roles.
Locations in the script include Phoenix, Prescott and Flagstaff, Arizona, New Mexico, and border town El Paso, Texas. Standing in for these communities, the film was actually shot in Arizona, 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 Río Colorado, Sonora, Mexico. The location portrayed as the Border Hotel in El Paso is the Hotel Del Sol (formerly Hotel Del Ming) in Yuma, Arizona. It was filmed in the spring of 1993 and was originally set to be released in December of that year.[5]
The film included a torrid sex scene between Baldwin and Basinger. “These scenes are always the toughest of any scenes to do,” says Donaldson. “People get into acting not to be exhibitionists, necessarily. They get into it because they love acting. And then you’re basically trying to convince them that this part of the story is essential…
Basically my philosophy of how to do these scenes is to give the actors as much freedom and privacy as you can possibly bring to it, and let them feel that ultimately you won’t compromise them. That you won’t make them look stupid or expose more of themselves than they would perhaps like to see. It has to be relevant to the movie and be tasteful.”
“Although we were co-stars we knew we had to forget we were married in real life,” Basinger said. “We each had a separate relationship with the director. There was none of this let’s go home and talk about it under the sheets and gang up on him the next day… I can’t begin to tell you how well the working experience turned out.”
The Getaway (1994)
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Farnsworth, James Woods, Richard Farnsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Villarreal
Screenplay by: Walter Hill, Amy Holden Jones
Production Design by: Joseph C. Nemec
Cinematography by: Peter Menzies Jr.
Film Editing by: Conrad Buff
Costume Design by: Marilyn Vance
Set Decoration by: Bob Intlekofer
Art Direction by: Dan Olexiewicz
Music by: Mark Isham
MPAA Rating: R for violence, sexuality and language.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: February 11, 1994
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