Word: benyon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white convertible to take on a new contract. The job is the get a convict out of prison and fly him back to Mexico. Doc is betrayed by Rudy (Michael Madsen), who leaves him stranded after the police are called on to the scene. Carol seeks the help of Benyon (James Woods),and offers Doc's services in return for his freedom. Benyon agrees, although Carol must perform a little service...
Herein the "Getaway"-speak of all the characters is laid out: cash and sex. After Doc robs a dog-racing vault for Benyon, he hops into a nervous Carol's car. She looks concerned, asks him if he is alright, looks at the bag with 2 million dollars and is immediately reassured, "I guess so! she gleefully exclaims...
...acting in the "Getaway" is not merely mediocre--it's just plain bad. This is probably because the script is so overwrought with cliches that the criminals are laughable. Benyon's badguy persona is so unconvincing that every once in a while I expected Benyon to fall out of character, turn to the audience and say "Just kidding." But this is not "Wayne's World"--the "Getaway's is not pretending to be stupid--so that never actually happens. Instead, Benyon's body just gets chucked in a well by his bodyguards, after they find him quite dead...