RoboCop
1987 film directed by Paul Verhoeven
RoboCop is a 1987 science fiction action[3] crime movie. It is directed by Paul Verhoeven. The movie stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox. It is set in a crime-ridden dystopian Detroit, Michigan in the near future where the police force is run by Security Concepts, a corporation.[4] RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is brutally attacked and fatally wounded by a gang of criminals. He is then made into a cyborg law enforcer known as "RoboCop".[5] The movie had two sequels, RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993). A remake of this movie was released in February 2014.
| RoboCop | |
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| Directed by | Paul Verhoeven |
| Written by |
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| Produced by | Arne Schmidt |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Jost Vacano |
| Edited by | Frank J. Urioste |
| Music by | Basil Poledouris |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
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Running time | 102 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $13 million[2] |
| Box office | $53.4 million (US)[2] |
Cast
change- Peter Weller as Officer Alex J. Murphy / RoboCop
- Nancy Allen as Officer Anne Lewis
- Daniel O'Herlihy as The Old Man
- Ronny Cox as Dick Jones
- Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker
- Miguel Ferrer as Bob Morton
- Robert DoQui as Sgt. Warren Reed
- Ray Wise as Leon C. Nash
- Felton Perry as Donald Johnson
- Paul McCrane as Emil Antonowsky
- Jesse Goins as Joe P. Cox
- Calvin Jung as Steve Minh
- Del Zamora as Kaplan
- Rick Lieberman as Walker
- Lee de Broux as Sal
- Edward Edwards as Manson
- Mark Carlton as Miller
- Michael Gregory as Lt. Hedgecock
- Kevin Page as Kinney
- Angie Bolling as Ellen Murphy
- James Levine as Jimmy Murphy
- S.D. Nemeth as Bixby Snyder
- Mario Machado as Casey Wong
References
change- ↑ "Classification.gov.au". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Box Office Information for RoboCop". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
- ↑ "The 50 Best Action Movies of All Time". Complex. November 23, 2016. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
- ↑ S. Perkowitz, Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), p. 150
- ↑ Elaine L. Graham, Representations of the Post/human: Monsters, Aliens, and Others in Popular Culture (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002), p. 209
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- Glass, Fred (1989). "The 'new bad future': Robocop and 1980s' Sci-Fi films". Science as Culture. 1 (5): 7–49. doi:10.1080/09505438909526234.
