Word: convicted
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...McCoy, a seasoned hitman, and Kim Basinger as wife and partner-in-crime, Carol. We meet the duo coolly clad with dark shades, shooting targets in the desert, cavalierly zipping away in their 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...
...international arena as this skate-off between Harding and Kerrigan at the Winter Games. Lately, the public has been denied closure in other morality tales: neither Bobbitt will serve time; California may never be able to cobble together a jury sufficiently unaffected by victim empathy to convict the Menendez brothers; Buffalo is unlikely to ever get another chance to beat Dallas...
Local and federal officials last week arrested a man who may be linked to the Polly Klaas kidnapping case. Klaas, 12, was abducted from her home in Petaluma, California, during a slumber party two months ago. The suspect, an ex-convict arrested for a parole violation, resembles the description given to police by Klaas' friends. The girl has not yet been found...
...convict Butch Haynes (Costner) has just escaped from prison with his partner, who immediately breaks into someone's home to stock up on provisions. In the ensuing struggle, Haynes takes the mother's eight-year-old son, Philip (T.J. Lowther), as a hostage, and they're off to hit the road. Haynes cleanly commits what we later learn is his second and final murder, and the little boy soon learns where he must turn his loyalties. Their relationship is quickly transformed from captor/captee, to mutual symbiosis for practical survival, to a mentor/mentee on the facts of life, to something that...
After a string of B-grade movies with roles as mediocre heroes, Kevin Costner has once again proven his reputation as as a first-rate performer. He portrays a likeable convict, one who deals with people with ease, handles every tight situation as if it were routine, and is charming through this very nonchalance and self-assuredness...