RoboCop (1987)

Director: Paul Verhoeven  Starring: Peter Weller  Nancy Allen  
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Product Summary
Publisher: TCFHE
Format: N/A
UPC: 00027616079978
Buy.com Sku: 205664620
Item#: V2VCGE
Category Keywords: Action  Cops  Essential Cinema  Futuristic  Recommended  Robots/Cyborgs  Science-Fiction  Theatrical Release  Thieves  Vengeance  Violence 
Rating: 
 
 
Corporate scientists turn a dead Detroit policeman into a cyborg crime-fighter.
 


Editor's Note

Peter Weller stars in this urban sci-fi Western as Murphy, a good cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine. An ambitious executive (Miguel Ferrer) at OCP, the corporation running the futuristic city of Detroit, fuses Murphy's torso with bulletproof steel limbs and rewires his brain with computer chips so he will have no will of his own. Murphy's former partner (Nancy Allen) tries to help RoboCop remember his human past, but his circuitry blocks whatever dim memories remain. Luckily, a chance encounter with one of his killers wakes up the human essence in RoboCop, causing him to rebel against his programming and commence on a one-cyborg mission of vengeance that leads all the way to the top of OCP. This second English-language film by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven is unremittingly brutal, darkly comic, and filled with bits of clever satire and pathos. A special highlight is the hilariously incompetent ED-209, RoboCop's main rival in the department of automated law enforcement. Considered by many critics to be one of the best films of its genre, ROBOCOP was followed by several sequels and a 1994 TV series.


Plot Summary

Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP is an ultraviolent but extremely clever sci-fi action film set in a burnt-out, crime-infested Detroit of the future. When a cop is almost killed in the line of duty, the corrupt corporation that runs the police department decides to use his near-dead body as the basis for a specially constructed cyborg--the first in what they intend to be a line of highly efficient, crime-fighting machines. But the corporate execs didn't take into account the vestiges of human nature still lurking beneath all that state-of-the-art hardware. It turns out RoboCop has a mind of his own and sets out to take bloody revenge on the vicious gang members who tried to kill him.

 
Features
2-Disc Set
Special Packaging
Package Note: Steelbook Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - French, Spanish
DTS 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional

Disc 1: ROBOCOP - Widescreen
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Scenes: Deleted Scenes (4)
Audio Commentary: Paul Verhoeven - Director; Ed Neumeier - Writer; Jon Davison - Executive Producer
Behind the Scenes:
1. "Flesh and Steel: The Making of ROBOCOP"
2. "Shooting ROBOCOP" (1987)
3. "Making ROBOCOP" (1987)
4. "The Boardroom: Storyboard" (w/Commentary)
Trailers:
1. Theatrical Trailer
2. TV Spots
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos:
1. Photo Gallery
2. Design
3. Special Effects
4. Paul Verhoven - Director
5. Behind the Scenes
6. Cast
7. ED 209





Disc 2: ROBOCOP - Widescreen; Extended Cut
Additional Release Material:
Behind the Scenes: "Special Effects: Then and Now"
Featurette:
1. "Villains of Old Detroit"
2. "ROBOCOP: Creating a Legend"
Interactive Features:
Easter Eggs




 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: TCFHE
Release Date: 4/15/2008
Running Time: 102 minutes
Original Release Date: 1987
Catalog ID: 107997
UPC: 00027616079978
Number of Discs: 2

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed
Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Ronny Cox
Miguel Ferrer
Peter Weller
Kurtwood Smith
Nancy Allen
Dan O'Herlihy
Jost Vacano - Director of Photography
Frank J. Urioste - Editor
Basil Poledouris - Composer
Arne Schmidt - Producer
Ed Neumeier - Screenwriter
Michael Miner - Screenwriter
Paul Verhoeven - Director

 
Awards

Academy Awards (1987)
Winner, Best Sound Effects Editing

 
Memorable Quotes
"I'd buy that for a dollar!"----Phrase from a popular future gameshow

"Dead or alive, you're coming with me."----RoboCop (Peter Weller) to a thug

"It's just a glitch."----OCP executive Dick Jones (Ronny Cox) to his superior (Dan O'Herlihy) after Jones's ED--209 robotic crimefighter prototype blows away a young employee during a botched product demonstration


 
Professional Reviews
Premiere
"...Chilling, at times hilarious..." - Recommended 05/01/1995 p.136

Sight and Sound
"...ROBOCOP is a shrewdly enjoyable movie..." 12/01/1987 p.66-7

Variety
"...Gut-level humor and technical wizardry....Robocop himself is a fascinating character..." 07/01/1987

Los Angeles Times
"...This movie has a motor humming inside. It's been assembled with ferocious, gleeful expertise, crammed with humor, cynicism and jolts of energy..." 07/17/1987 p.C1

USA Today
"This sicko futuristic satire of corporate Detroit is the movie that got director Paul Verhoeven out of Holland and ultimately into even beefier Hollywood megahits like TOTAL RECALL and BASIC INSTINCT..." 06/02/1995 p.3D

Total Film
"Paul Verhoeven's finest film isn't quite science-fact, but its corporation-driven, fat-cat future is our reality." 04/01/2004 p.137

Entertainment Weekly
"Weller is excellent, giving his metal man a very human heart....ROBOCOP turned out to be an extremely smart film." -- Grade: A 08/24/2007 p.119

Ultimate DVD
3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t remains a fearlessly over the top, endlessly enjoyable action flick." 11/23/2007 p.107

  
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