The Getaway

Remake of Sam Peckinpah’s gritty 1972 thriller in which a jailed criminal asks his wife to make a deal with a crime kingpin to ensure his release. The price of freedom proves high when his wife begins an affair with the crooked crimelord, and he finds he has been double-crossed., A remake of the 1972 film that was based on a novel by Jim Thompson, this movie follows the exploits of a criminal (Alec Baldwin) after his wife (Kim Basinger) manages to get him out of jail by pulling a few strings., When safecracker Carlton McCoy is double-crossed and ends up in jail, his wife Carol strikes a deal with mobster Jack Benyon to get him out in return for working one big job. But there is more to the deal than meets the eye, and soon Carter and Carol are on the run from the mob, the police and their double-crossing colleague Rudy., Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger play outlaw lovers-on-the-lam in this action-oriented remake. Travis: Michael Madsen. Benyon: James Woods. Jackson: David Morse. Fran Carvey: Jennifer Tilly. Harold Carvey: James Stephens. Directed by Roger Donaldson., Tense thriller about a bank robber’s frantic chase to the Mexican border after he and his wife are double-crossed by a powerful crime lord. The robber is paroled by a crooked politician who wants him to lead a heist but, after carrying out the job, he begins to smell a rat. His suspicions prove correct and a terrifying car chase towards the border begins, with the thief and his wife fending off villains at every turn.