Coupe de Ville (film)

Coupe de Ville
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Directed by	Joe Roth
Produced by	James G. Robinson Mike Binder
Written by	Mike Binder
Starring	Patrick Dempsey Arye Gross Daniel Stern Alan Arkin
Music by	James Newton Howard
Cinematography	Reynaldo Villalobos
Editing by	Paul Hirsch
Studio	Morgan Creek Productions
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	March 9, 1990 (1990-03-09)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$715,983

Coupe de Ville is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Joe Roth. It stars Daniel Stern, Arye Gross, and Patrick Dempsey as three very different brothers asked by their father to drive the titular Cadillac Coupe DeVille from Detroit to Miami.

Plot

Meet the Libner brothers: Marvin (Daniel Stern), the oldest, is a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Buddy (Arye Gross), the middle child, is a timid dreamer. Bobby (Patrick Dempsey), the youngest, is a handsome rebel in reform school. As kids, they fought a lot and as adults, they barely speak to each other. In the summer of 1963, their tough and eccentric father, Fred (Alan Arkin), gives them a task: to bring a 1954 Cadillac, bought for their mother, Betty (Rita Taggart), from Detroit to Miami. As the trip goes on, the three brothers fight and begin to reconnect with each other, while trying to keep the Caddy in mint condition.

Cast

• Patrick Dempsey as Robert "Bobby" Libner
• Arye Gross as Buddy Libner
• Daniel Stern as Marvin Libner
• Alan Arkin as Fred "Pop" Libner
• Rita Taggart as Betty Libner
• Annabeth Gish as Tammy
• Joseph Bologna as Uncle Phil Libner
• James Gammon as Dr. Sturgeon, the Cadillac Surgeon
• Ray Lykins as Rick
• Chris Lombardi as Raymond
• Josh Segal as Billy Sturgeon

Release and reception

Critical reaction

Coupe de Ville received moderate reviews.^{[citation needed]}

Box office

The film was a box office failure; in its opening weekend (3/9-11), it didn't even make the charts, only grossing $66,871. In the end, Coupe de Ville only opened in 170 theaters and made $715,983 in the US.^[1]

References

1. ^ Coupe de Ville (1990) - Box Office Mojo

External links

• Coupe de Ville at the Internet Movie Database
• Coupe de Ville at AllRovi
• Coupe de Ville at Box Office Mojo
• Coupe de Ville at Rotten Tomatoes