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L'affaire Karen McCoy

Original title: The Real McCoy
  • 1993
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
10K
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Kim Basinger in L'affaire Karen McCoy (1993)
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A woman is released from prison, an expert bank robber who wants to settle down and go straight, but her parole officer and her former employer try to get her to pull one more heist.A woman is released from prison, an expert bank robber who wants to settle down and go straight, but her parole officer and her former employer try to get her to pull one more heist.A woman is released from prison, an expert bank robber who wants to settle down and go straight, but her parole officer and her former employer try to get her to pull one more heist.

  • Director
    • Russell Mulcahy
  • Writers
    • Desmond Lowden
    • William Davies
    • William Osborne
  • Stars
    • Kim Basinger
    • Val Kilmer
    • Terence Stamp
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    10K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Russell Mulcahy
    • Writers
      • Desmond Lowden
      • William Davies
      • William Osborne
    • Stars
      • Kim Basinger
      • Val Kilmer
      • Terence Stamp
    • 21User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Kim Basinger
    Kim Basinger
    • Karen McCoy
    Val Kilmer
    Val Kilmer
    • J.T. Barker
    Terence Stamp
    Terence Stamp
    • Jack Schmidt
    Gailard Sartain
    Gailard Sartain
    • Gary Buckner
    Zach English
    • Patrick
    Raynor Scheine
    Raynor Scheine
    • Baker
    Deborah Hobart
    Deborah Hobart
    • Cheryl Sweeney
    Pamela Stubbart
    • Kelly
    Andy Stahl
    Andy Stahl
    • Mr. Kroll
    Dean Rader-Duval
    Dean Rader-Duval
    • Lewis
    Norman Max Maxwell
    • Hoke
    • (as Norman Maxwell)
    Marc Macaulay
    Marc Macaulay
    • Karl
    Peter Turner
    • Guard
    David Dwyer
    David Dwyer
    • Guard
    Frank Roberts
    Frank Roberts
    • Guard
    Robert Glover
    • Prison Guard
    Claude File
    • Prison Guard
    David Hart
    David Hart
    • Businessman
    • Director
      • Russell Mulcahy
    • Writers
      • Desmond Lowden
      • William Davies
      • William Osborne
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    User reviews21

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    6SnoopyStyle

    good set up but lesser caper film

    Cat burglar Karen McCoy (Kim Basinger) is released from prison after 6 years for the bank robbery. She's on parole with only the suit she went to court with. Her ex told her son Patrick that she's dead. Gary Buckner is her harsh parole officer. J.T. Barker (Val Kilmer) is an incompetent robber eager to be in her next job. She's trying to go straight but nobody is willing to hire an ex-con. J.T.'s relative Jack Schmidt (Terence Stamp) wants her to do one more job. Buckner threatens Karen with more prison unless she does the job. When she refuses, Patrick is kidnapped.

    The first half sets up for a solid caper movie. Everything is against Karen. She's the underdog with a heart of gold. The caper is functional. It's at least six years since Karen has done a job and she is still up to date with security tech. It's hard to imagine her ex holding off calling the cops. There are a few little things that add up to a less compelling caper movie.
    6tehhaxxor

    Inessential yet Unoffensive Heist Yarn

    As a director of music video clips, Russell Mulcahy is something of a living legend. Aside from directing the first video MTV ever aired (back when they did that sort of thing), he also helmed the clips for acts like The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Queen, Billy Joel, and a myriad of other artists. It may take a handful of film class periods to wholly examine his prolific work in the eighties.

    As a film director, however, his work is much more difficult to digest. "Ricochet" and "Resident Evil: Extinction" are able actioners, but his only real classic is "Highlander". Needless to say, it's classic of the most cultish variety, which was probably inevitable considering lead Christopher Lambert is as wooden an actor as a totem pole. I won't even get into wild misfires like "The Shadow" or low budget television tripe like "The Curse of King Tut's Tomb". It's a tall order to get excited about a director that foists that sort of work on an unsuspecting public.

    It was quite a surprise, then, to find that "The Real McCoy" stands among some of Mulcahy's best film work. The plotting follows a rather formulaic heist tale, which also requires serious suspension of disbelief on the part of the audience as we're supposed to believe Kim Basinger is some sort of master thief. Val Kilmer portrays an amiable yet inept robber while the great Terence Stamp is sadly wasted as the local crime boss. He's essentially playing the same role Ben Gazzara did in Road House, except Englishman Stamp was forced to adopt a horrific Southern American accent for his role.

    Despite a predictable plot and somewhat dubious casting, "The Real McCoy" is an entirely enjoyable heist film in the same vein as The Score. Granted, neither are particularly memorable, yet they make for ample entertainment on a rainy afternoon. Highlights include Kilmer's singularly hilarious botched convenience store robbery and the intricate, if entirely implausible, bank heist at the climax of the film.

    In summation, if you're able to believe Basinger as a world-class thief who handles with equal aplomb both air compressed second-story apparati and complex computer wizardry, you may enjoy this film. If you can accept that Terence Stamp is attempting to effect some kind of Southern American accent and has absolutely no room within the script to even pretend to act, you may enjoy this film. If you can stomach a vastly dated, ear-grating score that was composed almost entirely on a mid- eighties era synthesizer, you will almost certainly enjoy this film.
    6alexcams

    Bank robber forced into another job to rescue son.

    Not sure why this film gets trashed as much as it does, since it's pretty good. It's worth watching for the cast alone -- Basinger, Kilmer and Stamp. But it must be said that the British film upon which it's based is better. That would be Bellman and True (from an old English song) starring a cast of people that you probably never heard of, headlined by Bernard Hill as the computer geek who has to go along to keep his son safe. Bellman and True also serves as something of a time capsule, taking us back to a grotty, depressed and depressing London that is barely visible in British films any more. We can probably put the change in tone down to the Four Weddings effect. The comparison of these two movies serves as an excellent example of one of the more interesting questions of popular culture: why are the Brits generally so much better at movies that feature crime than Hollywood? Think of Cracker, State of Play, Prime Suspect, Behind The Lines, and Mobile.
    5Mr-Fusion

    Weak Sauce

    From what I've seen (for the most part), if there's a Trans Am in a movie, then the movie's going to be good. "The Driver", "Smokey and the Bandit", "Donnie Darko", "Blue Thunder", all awesome, and each one proudly displaying a Firebird. Pretty good rule of thumb, thus far.

    Not so with the "The Real McCoy", which is mostly a brain-dead affair - in the sense that you can be half-comatose on the couch and still follow the plot. This thing's so formulaic, it doesn't take any brain power to keep up. It's just one heist movie cliché after another. They even manage to waste Terrence Stamp on a vanilla bad guy role (dammit, that should be a federal crime!). It's a little shocking just how meek Kim Basinger comes off here, what with her being the numero-uno cat burglar. Who knows, maybe Catwoman ruined me, but they could've hardened this character.

    5/10
    5LuboLarsson

    Average heist movie

    This is the sort of film that will do if nothing else is on but not much else. Its a heist film with Kim Basinger and Val Kilmer and everything in it has been done before and done better. The bank robbery at the end is a bit of a let down because it just seems too easy. It was directed by the man who brought us the fabulous Highlander, but sadly also the truly awful Highlander 2, this film is somewhere in between. The only plus points are the always great to look at Kim Basinger, and Val Kilmer in a different sort of role to his usual stuff. I think Kim Basinger is a great actress but like most females in Hollywood seems to struggle to get decent films to star in, not counting the awesome LA Confidential of course. All in all a very average film ***5/10***

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    • Trivia
      Kim Basinger's hometown is Athens, Georgia, the same town as the prison where her character serves time.
    • Goofs
      Karen's ex-husband has absolutely no problem smuggling a gun into the departure gate.
    • Quotes

      [J.T. Barker comes out of the bank and is questioned what he was doing in there. He said he was closing up his account]

      Bad Guy: What the hell are you gonna do with a 152 dollars? We're taking 18 God damn million dollars out of here on Thursday!

      J.T. Barker: I know that. I just don't wanna split *my* 152 dollars 4 ways...

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: True Romance/The Ballad of Little Jo/Kalifornia/The Joy Luck Club/The Real McCoy (1993)
    • Soundtracks
      Down Home
      Written by Jim Jacobsen (as Wolf McKenzie)

      Performed by Jim Jacobsen

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    • Release date
      • August 17, 1994 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La verdadera McCoy
    • Filming locations
      • Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    • Production companies
      • Bregman/Baer Productions
      • Capella International
      • Connexion Film Productions
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $6,484,246
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,705,425
      • Sep 12, 1993
    • Gross worldwide
      • $6,484,246
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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