The Real McCoy (film)

The Real McCoy
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Russell Mulcahy
Produced by	Martin Bregman; Willi Baer; Michael S. Bregman;
Written by	William Davies; William Osborne;
Starring	Kim Basinger; Val Kilmer; Terence Stamp;
Music by	Brad Fiedel
Cinematography	Denis Crossan
Edited by	Peter Honess
Production; company	Bregman/Baer Productions, inc.
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	September 10, 1993;
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United 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

Kim Basinger as Karen McCoy
Val Kilmer as J.T. Barker
Terence Stamp as Jack Schmidt
Gailard Sartain as Gary Buckner
Zach English as Patrick
Deborah Hobart as Cheryl Sweeney
Pamela Stubbart as Kelly
Andy Stahl as Mr. Kroll
Dean Rader-Duval as Lewis
Norman Maxwell as Hoke
Marc Macaulay as Karl
Nick Searcy as Roy Sweeney

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

↑ 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.
↑ "The Real McCoy (1993)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
↑ Ebert, Roger (September 10, 1993). "The Real McCoy". RogerEbert.com. Ebert Digital LLC. Retrieved April 17, 2018.

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[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.