Money Train is a 1995 American thriller film starring Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and Jennifer Lopez as New York City transit cops. After losing his job, Harrelson's character plots to hijack and then rob the "money train" which hauls collected fare revenues for the New York City Subway from the system's stations.
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Production
The subway car used as the money train in the film is a modified R22 subway car. The rolling stock was modified by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and film crew into an imposing subway train covered in silver armor plating and equipped with flashing orange lights and sliding barred doors, like those on a jail cell. After production, the car was donated to the New York Transit Museum. The actual money train resembled a normal maintenance train painted yellow with black diagonal stripes. The New York City subway system retired its money trains in 2006; the introduction of the MetroCard and computerized vending machines that allowed fare payment by credit card have dramatically reduced the number of coins stored in subway stations.
Reception
The film took in $35,431,113 at the North American box office, including $10,608,297 on its opening weekend.[1] It was very poorly received by film critics[2], described by one reviewer as "a loud and truly pointless action-comedy".[3]
In addition to its middling reviews, the film was vilified for its portrayal of a man robbing a ticket booth by running a rubber tube around the bulletproof partition and dousing the attendant with an unknown flammable liquid, then threatening to set them on fire. This crime was repeated in real life after the film's release.[4][5]
Cast
- Wesley Snipes - John
- Woody Harrelson - Charlie
- Jennifer Lopez - Grace Santiago
- Robert Blake - Donald Patterson
- Chris Cooper - Torch
References
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=moneytrain.htm
- ^ http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/money_train/
- ^ http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/money_train/comments.php?reviewid=1523276
- ^ Token Booth Fire Attack Seems Unrelated To Movie - New York Times
- ^ "Cash and Carry". New York Times. 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/nyregion/thecity/31mone.html?ref=thecity. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
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| Preceded by 12 Monkeys |
Box office number-one films of 1996 (UK) May 19, 1996 |
Succeeded by Muppet Treasure Island |
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