Tin Cup (1996)
76%RT Audience Score:
Awards & Nominations: 4 nominations
Breezy and predictable, Tin Cup is a likeable sports comedy that benefits greatly from Kevin Costner’s amiable lead performance
Tin Cup is the perfect movie for anyone who loves golf, romance, and Kevin Costner’s charming smile. It’s a classic sports rom-com that will have you rooting for Roy “Tin Cup” McAvoy as he tries to win the heart of his love interest and the U.S. Open. The golf action is sometimes outrageous, but it’s the banter and chemistry between the characters that really make this movie a hole-in-one. Plus, who doesn’t love seeing Costner in his prime as a loose, sparkling comic actor? It may not be a Bull Durham-level classic, but Tin Cup is still a charmer from tee-off to final putt.
Production Company(ies)
Absolute Clay Productions, Quincy Jones Productions, Shadow Catcher Entertainment,
Distributor
NA
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Tubac, Arizona, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for language and brief nudity
Year of Release
1996
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital SDDS
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Aspect ratio:2.35 : 1
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Runtime:NA
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Streaming): Aug 22, 1997
Genre(s)
Comedy
Keyword(s)
starring Kevin Costner, Rene Russo, Cheech Marin, Linda Hart, Don Johnson, Dennis Burkley, directed by Ron Shelton, written by Ron Shelton, produced by Gary Foster, comedy, R rating, box office gross $53.9M, reviewed by Bob Thomas, David Ansen, Richard Schickel, Desson Thomson, Owen Gleiberman, Todd McCarthy, James Croot, Danielle Solzman, Matt Brunson, Cole Smithey, Michael Szymanski, Chuck O’Leary, golf, sports comedy, PGA Tour, golf instructor, psychiatrist, celebrity golf tournament, romantic comedy, Kevin Costner’s amiable lead performance, predictable, loose, sparkling comic actor, male mulishness, rousing sequence, celebration of what it really means to win, outrageous golf action, magnificent banter, sizzling chemistry, sports rom-com, interesting characters, Breezy
Worldwide gross: $53,854,588
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $102,794,703
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,000
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 11,209,891
US/Canada gross: $53,854,588
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $102,794,703
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 731
US/Canada opening weekend: $10,128,834
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $19,333,366
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 676
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $45,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $85,893,548
Production budget ranking: 486
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $46,253,675
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): -$29,352,520
ROI to date (est.): -22%
ROI ranking: 1,518
Rene Russo – Dr. Molly Griswold
Cheech Marin – Romeo Posar
Linda Hart – Doreen
Don Johnson – David Simms
Dennis Burkley – Earl
Director(s)
Ron Shelton
Writer(s)
NA
Producer(s)
Gary Foster, Ron Shelton
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
4 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (53) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (15)
It is a charmer from tee-off to final putt.
August 7, 2019
Bob Thomas
Associated Press
TOP CRITIC
The good news about the amiable but only partly satisfying Tin Cup is that it frees Kevin Costner from playing a monument and restores to us the loose, sparkling comic actor he used to be.
February 27, 2018
David Ansen
Newsweek
TOP CRITIC
As he always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness.
August 5, 2008
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
TOP CRITIC
Tin Cup works for viewers of any handicap.
August 5, 2008
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
TOP CRITIC
The climactic game, in which Roy, in a way that defies prediction, attempts to sink the shot of his life, is the most rousing sequence of the year, a celebration of what it really means to win.
August 5, 2008 | Rating: A-
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
TOP CRITIC
Amiable and constantly amusing rather than uproarious, this mangy tale of a ne’er-do-well’s fitful assault on personal and professional respectability benefits greatly from Kevin Costner’s ingratiatingly comic star turn.
August 5, 2008
Todd McCarthy
Variety
TOP CRITIC
Watch for the sometimes outrageous golf action, stay for the magnificent banter and sizzling chemistry.
August 30, 2021 | Rating: 4.5/5
James Croot
Stuff.co.nz
Tin Cup might not be a classic in the way that Bull Durham was but it still works as a sports rom-com even if the film is slightly long.
May 21, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5
Danielle Solzman
Solzy at the Movies
Eight years after collaborating on the best sports movie ever made, Bull Durham’s writer-director and star reunited for another film in the same vein.
May 4, 2020 | Rating: 3/4
Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
September 24, 2006 | Rating: 3/5
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
November 4, 2005 | Rating: 1/5
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com
What makes Tin Cup such an unabashed pleasure is Shelton’s care in writing and developing interesting characters.
October 8, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
Chuck O’Leary
Fantastica Daily…
Plot
Roy ‘Tin cup’ McAvoy, a failed pro golfer who lives at the run-down driving range which he manages with his sidekick and caddy Romeo in the West Texas tin pot town of Salome, ends up signing over ownership to a madam of ‘show girls’ to pay off debts. His foxy novice golf pupil, female psychiatrist Dr. Molly Griswold, turns out to be the new girlfriend of McAvoy’s sarcastic one-time college golf partner, slick PGA superstar David Simms, who drops by to play into Roy’s fatal flaw: the inability to resist a dare, all too often causing him to lose against lesser players, in this case gambling away his car. Falling for Molly, Roy decides to become her patient; in order to earn her respect, he decides to try to qualify for the US Open, after starting off as Simm’s caddy ‘for the benefit of his experience’. His talent proves more then adequate, but over-confident negligence of risks, while pleasing the crowds, is murder on his scores, while Simms spits on the fans but never wastes a point…
Trivia
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