{"id":34288,"date":"2023-10-26T05:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34288"},"modified":"2023-10-26T05:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:53:31","slug":"the-getaway-1994-starring-alec-baldwin-kim-basinger-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34288","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Getaway&#8221; (1994) starring Alec Baldwin &#038; Kim Basinger \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z102623zview_getaway94.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Getaway <\/strong><\/em>(1994)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Roger Donaldson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>Walter Hill,\u00a0 Amy Holden Jones <\/strong>based on<strong> THE GETAWAY <\/strong>by<strong> Jim Thompson<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, David Morse, Jennifer Tilly, James Stephens, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Burton Gilliam, Royce D. Applegate, Daniel Villarreal, Alex Colon <\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Richard Farnsworth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Choosing between love and money is one thing. Getting away with both is something else<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carter &#8220;Doc&#8221; McCoy (Baldwin) was serving time in a Mexican prison after being double crossed on his last job. Thanks to Jack Benyon&#8217;s (Woods) influence and cash payoffs, Doc is now a free man.\u00a0 Well, almost.\u00a0 Doc owes Benyon a debt that will be paid off after Doc&#8217;s next job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All goes well until it doesn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Before Doc and his accomplices meet to divide the cash, the double crosses begin.\u00a0 Doc doesn&#8217;t know who he can trust.\u00a0 After he finds out what his wife, Carol (Basinger), did to get his release from prison, Doc&#8217;s not even sure about her,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cops and Benyon&#8217;s men are after them.\u00a0 Doc and Carol need a clean getaway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two biggest differences in <em>The Getaway<\/em> directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw and this one are 1) Doc and his wife are more of a team in the remake, and 2) there&#8217;s more nudity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">McQueen and McGraw fell in love while filming <em>The Getaway<\/em>.\u00a0 They later married.\u00a0 Baldwin and Basinger were already married when they starred in the remake.\u00a0 They later divorced.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of both versions of the film.\u00a0 THE GETAWAY is my favorite novel by Jim Thompson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Baldwin and Basinger are aided by a great supporting cast.\u00a0 Standouts include Michael Madsen, James Woods, David Morse, Jennifer Tilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Burton Gilliam and Richard Farnsworth.<\/p>\n<p>There was talk of a sequel, but it never happened.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not too late.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z102623zview_getaway94a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Getaway (1994) Director:\u00a0 Roger Donaldson Screenplay by: \u00a0Walter Hill,\u00a0 Amy Holden Jones based on THE GETAWAY by Jim Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34315,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34288\/revisions\/34315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}