RoboCop

RoboCop is a 1987 science fiction action crime movie. It is directed by Paul Verhoeven. The movie stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox. It is set in a crime-ridden dystopian Detroit, Michigan in the near future where the police force is run by Security Concepts, a corporation.S. Perkowitz, Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), p. 150 RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is brutally attacked and fatally wounded by a gang of criminals. He is then made into a cyborg law enforcer known as "RoboCop".Elaine L. Graham, Representations of the Post/human: Monsters, Aliens, and Others in Popular Culture (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002), p. 209 The movie had two sequels, RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993). A remake of this movie was released in February 2014.

Cast

Peter Weller as Officer Alex J. Murphy / RoboCop
Nancy Allen as Officer Anne Lewis
Daniel O'Herlihy as The Old Man
Ronny Cox as Dick Jones
Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker
Miguel Ferrer as Bob Morton
Robert DoQui as Sgt. Warren Reed
Ray Wise as Leon C. Nash
Felton Perry as Donald Johnson
Paul McCrane as Emil Antonowsky
Jesse Goins as Joe P. Cox
Calvin Jung as Steve Minh
Del Zamora as Kaplan
Rick Lieberman as Walker
Lee de Broux as Sal
Edward Edwards as Manson
Mark Carlton as Miller
Michael Gregory as Lt. Hedgecock
Kevin Page as Kinney
Angie Bolling as Ellen Murphy
James Levine as Jimmy Murphy
S.D. Nemeth as Bixby Snyder
Mario Machado as Casey Wong

References

Other websites

Criterion Collection essay by Carrie Rickey

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