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Tin Cup

1996

Ron Shelton

Kevin Costner, René Russo, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson ...

4.6

7,107

Comedy Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner) is a talented golf pro, who owns his own driving range. That sounds impressive, but the reality is quite different. While it's true that Roy is indeed a talented golfer and does own a driving range, it is in a tiny, unheard of Texas backwater. With almost no customers, he is likely to go broke. His golfing talents remain untapped and his life is rapidly going nowhere. To pass the time, he drinks a lot of beer ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"Bright, stylish, ridiculously alluring"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Tin Cup works for viewers of any handicap"	POS
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"It frees Kevin Costner from playing a monument and restores to us the loose, sparkling comic actor he used to be."	POS
United States	Peter Stack SFGATE	"[It] accomplishes the impossible, maybe the unimaginable -- it makes golf entertaining."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Dispiritingly conventional and obvious."	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Costner hasn't been this charming and spontaneous for years."	POS

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