Pink Cadillac (film)
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| Directed by | Buddy Van Horn |
| Produced by | David Valdes Michael Gruskoff |
| Written by | John Eskow |
| Starring | Clint Eastwood Bernadette Peters Timothy Carhart |
| Music by | Steve Dorff |
| Editing by | Joel Cox |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 26, 1989 |
| Running time | 122 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $ unknown |
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| United States: | PG-13 |
Pink Cadillac is a 1989 action-comedy film that has white supremacists and Clint Eastwood as a "skip-tracer", each chasing after an innocent woman (Bernadette Peters), who tries to outrun everyone in her husband's prized pink Cadillac.
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[edit] Plot summary
A white supremacist group is chasing Lou Ann (Bernadette Peters), whose husband is a member, because she has inadvertently taken counterfeit money from them. Tommy Nowak (Clint Eastwood) is a "skip-tracer", whose speciality is dressing up in outlandish outfits and disguises to fool the person he is after. Tommy takes on the job of finding Lou Ann because she skipped bail. He finds her, but, adversaries at first, Tommy slowly becomes enamored of Lou Ann and decides to help her. Lou Ann's husband takes their baby daughter as ransom. As Tommy and Lou Ann travel to get the baby back they visit Reno and other places in the West, and romance blossoms. In the end, the supremacist group is outwitted, Lou Ann gets her baby daughter back, and the threesome --Tommy, Lou Ann, and baby--drive off together in the Cadillac.
[edit] Cast
- Clint Eastwood - Tommy Nowak
- Bernadette Peters - Lou Ann McGuinn
- Timothy Carhart - Roy McGuinn
- John Dennis Johnson - Waycross
- Jimmie F. Skaggs - Billy Dunston
- Bill Moseley - Darrell
- William Hickey - Mr. Barton
- Geoffrey Lewis - Ricky Z
- Dirk Blocker - Policeman #1
- Jim Carrey - Comedian
- James Cromwell - Motel Desk Clerk
- Sven-Ole Thorsen - Birthright Thug
- Bill McKinney - Coltersville Bartender
- Bryan Adams - Gas Station Attendant
[edit] Responses
The film received generally poor reviews. Caryn James wrote: "When it's time to look back on the strange sweep of Clint Eastwood's career, from his ambitious direction of Bird to his coarse, classic Dirty Harry character, Pink Cadillac will probably settle comfortably near the bottom of the list. It is the laziest sort of action comedy, with lumbering chase scenes, a dull-witted script and the charmless pairing of Mr. Eastwood and Bernadette Peters." (New York Times, May 26, 1989.)
Pink Cadillac grossed $12,143,484. In contrast, the movie Eastwood made just prior to Pink Cadillac, the fifth Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool, grossed $37,903,295. [1]
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