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Cadillac Man - Wikipedia

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Cadillac Man
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Roger Donaldson
Written by	Ken Friedman
Produced by	Roger Donaldson Charles Roven
Starring	Robin Williams Tim Robbins Pamela Reed Fran Drescher
Cinematography	David Gribble
Edited by	Richard Francis-Bruce
Music by	J. Peter Robinson
Distributed by	Orion Pictures
Release date	May 18, 1990 (1990-05-18)
Running time	97 minutes^[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$15 million^[2]
Box office	$27.6 million (US)^[3]

Cadillac Man is a 1990 American black comedy film directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Robin Williams and Tim Robbins.

The plot of the film centers on car salesman Joey O'Brien (Williams), whose life is consumed by turmoil, which all comes to a head when his dealership is taken hostage by Larry (Robbins), a love-crazed motorcyclist.

The film received mixed reviews from critics, and grossed $27.6 million against its $15 million budget.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Queens car salesman Joey O'Brien must deal with the ever-increasing pressures in his life: he has an ex-wife demanding alimony, a daughter who is missing, a married mistress and a single mistress who are both desperately in love with him, and a two-day deadline to either sell twelve cars or lose his job. In addition, he has an outstanding loan from a Mafia don; a loan that he must either quickly repay or lose his life.

On the day of the big dealership car sale (and the final day of O'Brien's deadline), the car dealership is taken hostage by Larry, a motorcyclist toting an AK-47 who believes that his wife is cheating on him. Joey manages to talk Larry out of doing any harm, by claiming that he is the one who is sleeping with Larry's wife. As police surround the dealership, Joey and Larry begin to bond, and Joey convinces Larry to give himself up.

Not realizing that Larry's gun is not loaded, the police wound him after most of the hostages have already been released. Joey promises to remain with him while he recovers, and confesses that he had never actually slept with Larry's wife. The crisis resolves all of Joey's problems: his mistresses learn of each other and dump him, his daughter returns, his job is secure, the Mafia don (whose son was among the hostages) forgives his debt, and he begins to reconcile with his ex-wife.

Cast

Robin Williams as Joey O'Brien
Tim Robbins as Larry
Pamela Reed as Tina
Annabella Sciorra as Donna
Fran Drescher as Joy Munchack
Zack Norman as Harry Munchack
Lori Petty as Lila
Paul Guilfoyle as Jack "Little Jack" Turgeon
Bill Nelson as Jack "Big Jack" Turgeon
Eddie Jones as Benny
Mimi Cecchini as Ma
Tristine Skyler as Lisa
Judith Hoag as Molly
Lauren Tom as Dim sum waitress
Anthony Powers as Captain Mason
Bill Nunn as Grave Digger
Paul Herman as Tony DiPino
Erik King as Davey
Richard Panebianco as Frankie DiPino
Gary Howard Klar as Detective Walters
Elaine Stritch as Widow
Jack Mulcahy as S.W.A.T. Team Officer

Production

To prepare for his role in the film, Williams spent time in car dealerships in Queens, New York.^[4]

Release

The film opened at number 2 at the box office on May 18, 1990, behind Bird on a Wire.^[3] Its total worldwide gross was $27,627,310.^[5]

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 58%, based on 12 reviews.^[6] Metacritic gives it a score of 50 out of 100, based on 21 critic reviews.^[7] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a "B−" grade on scale of A+ to F.^[8]

Chicago Sun-Times critic, Roger Ebert, had mixed feelings about the film, giving it a two stars out of four, stating, "My problems with Cadillac Man were probably inspired more by false expectations than by anything on the screen, and maybe if Robbins had come crashing in through the window in the first scene I would have liked it more."^[9]

Variety thought that the film had "the distinction of being the loudest film of 1990 and one of the worst".^[10]

References

^ "Cadillac Man (15)". British Board of Film Classification. July 6, 1990. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Powergrid: Cadillac Man". TheWrap.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Cadillac Man (1990)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
^ Rosenthal, Donna (May 9, 1990). "'Cadillac Man' Finds a New Life". Los Angeles Times.
^ "'Recall' Totally Outdistances 'Future' in Box-Office Race Movies". Los Angeles Times. June 5, 1990. Retrieved November 30, 2010.
^ "Cadillac Man". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
^ "Cadillac Man". Metacritic.
^ "Cinemascore". Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
^ Ebert, Roger (May 18, 1990). "Cadillac Man (1990) Review". Retrieved January 31, 2019.
^ "Film Reviews: Cadillac Man". Variety. May 16, 1990. p. 26.

External links

Cadillac Man at IMDb
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Cadillac Man at Rotten Tomatoes
Cadillac Man at Box Office Mojo
Cadillac Man at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

Films directed by Roger Donaldson

Sleeping Dogs (1977)
Nutcase (1980)
Smash Palace (1981)
The Bounty (1984)
Marie (1985)
No Way Out (1987)
Cocktail (1988)
Cadillac Man (1990)
White Sands (1992)
The Getaway (1994)
Species (1995)
Dante's Peak (1997)
Thirteen Days (2000)
The Recruit (2003)
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
The Bank Job (2008)
Seeking Justice (2011)
The November Man (2014)
McLaren (2017)

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