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Mark McGwire (left) and Sammy Sosa (right) are the only players to join the 50 home run club in four consecutive seasons.
In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 50 home run club is the group of batters who have hit 50 or more home runs in a single season.[1][2][3] Babe Ruth was the first to achieve this, doing so in 1920. By reaching the milestone, he also became the first player to hit 30 and then 40 home runs in a single-season, breaking his own record of 29 from the 1919 season.[4] Ruth subsequently became the first player to reach the 50 home run club on four occasions, repeating the achievement in 1921, 1927 and 1928.[5][6] He remained the only player to accomplish this until Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa matched his feat in 1999 and 2001, respectively, thus becoming the only players to achieve four consecutive 50 home run seasons.[6] Barry Bonds hit the most home runs to join the club, collecting 73 in 2001.[6] The most recent players to reach the milestone are Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge, achieving the feat during the 2017 season.[7]
In total, 29 players have reached the 50 home run club in MLB history and nine have done so more than once.[6] Of these, seventeen were right-handed batters, eleven were left-handed, and one was a switch hitter, meaning he could bat from either side of the plate. Four of these players (including two active members of the 50 home run club)[8] have played for only one major league team. The New York Yankees are the only franchise to have five players reach the milestone while on their roster: Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Alex Rodriguez, and Aaron Judge. Ten players are also members of the 500 home run club[9] and two of them (Willie Mays and Rodriguez) are also members of the 3,000 hit club.[10] Ten players won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in the same year as their 50 home run season.[11] Mantle is the only player to have earned the Major League Triple Crown alongside achieving 50 home runs, leading both leagues in batting average, home runs and runs batted in (RBI).[12][13][14] Mantle and Maris—collectively known as the M&M Boys—are the only teammates to reach the 50 home run club in the same season, hitting a combined 115 home runs in 1961 and breaking the single-season record for home runs by a pair of teammates.[15][16] Albert Belle is the only player to amass 50 or more doubles in addition to attaining 50 home runs.[17][18] Prince Fielder, at 23 years and 139 days, was the youngest player to reach the milestone while Bonds, at age 37, was the oldest.[19][20]
Due to the infrequent addition of members into the 50 home run club, Baseball Digest called it "a restrictive fraternity comprising slugging elite"[21] in 1954, when there were only six members. Of the seventeen members eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame, eight have been elected and three were elected on the first ballot. Eligibility requires that a player has "been retired five seasons" or deceased for at least six months,[22] disqualifying four active players and five players who have been retired for less than five seasons. Some believe the milestone has become less important with the large number of new members;[23][24] fifteen players joined the club on a total of 24 occasions from 1995 to 2010.[6] Additionally, several of these recent members have had ties to performance-enhancing drugs.[25][26][27][28]
Contents
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1 Members
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References
Members[edit]
Babe Ruth was the first member of the 50 home run club and joined it in four seasons, a record he shares with Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Jimmie Foxx achieved the 50 home run club and won the MVP Award in 1932 and 1938.
Mickey Mantle (right) earned the Triple Crown in addition to achieving the 50 home run club in 1956. Five years later, he and Roger Maris (left) became the only teammates to reach the 50 home run club in the same season.
Key
Year
The year the player's 50 home run season occurred
Player (X)
Name of the player and number of 50 home run seasons they had accomplished at that point
Team
The player's team for his 50 home run season
HR
Number of home runs in that season
Career HR
The number of home runs the player hit in his MLB career
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Denotes single-season home run record progression
Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
Player is active
Members of the 50 home run club
Year
Player
Team
HR
Career HR
Ref
1920
Ruth, BabeBabe Ruth
New York Yankees 54^ 714 [5]
1921
Ruth, BabeBabe Ruth (2)
New York Yankees 59^ 714 [5]
1927
Ruth, BabeBabe Ruth (3)
New York Yankees 60^ 714 [5]
1928
Ruth, BabeBabe Ruth (4)
New York Yankees 54 714 [5]
1930
Wilson, HackHack Wilson
Chicago Cubs 56 244 [29]
1932
Foxx, JimmieJimmie Foxx
Philadelphia Athletics 58 534 [30]
1938
Foxx, JimmieJimmie Foxx (2)
Boston Red Sox 50 534 [30]
1938
Greenberg, HankHank Greenberg
Detroit Tigers 58 331 [31]
1947
Mize, JohnnyJohnny Mize
New York Giants 51 359 [32]
1947
Kiner, RalphRalph Kiner
Pittsburgh Pirates 51 369 [33]
1949
Kiner, RalphRalph Kiner (2)
Pittsburgh Pirates 54 369 [33]
1955
Mays, WillieWillie Mays
New York Giants 51 660 [34]
1956
Mantle, MickeyMickey Mantle
New York Yankees 52 536 [35]
1961
Mantle, MickeyMickey Mantle (2)
New York Yankees 54 536 [35]
1961
Maris, RogerRoger Maris
New York Yankees 61^ 275 [36]
1965
Mays, WillieWillie Mays (2)
San Francisco Giants 52 660 [34]
1977
Foster, GeorgeGeorge Foster
Cincinnati Reds 52 348 [37]
1990
Fielder, CecilCecil Fielder
Detroit Tigers 51 319 [38]
1995
Belle, AlbertAlbert Belle
Cleveland Indians 50 381 [39]
1996
Anderson, BradyBrady Anderson
Baltimore Orioles 50 210 [40]
1996
McGwire, MarkMark McGwire
Oakland Athletics 52 583 [41]
1997
Griffey, Jr., KenKen Griffey, Jr.
Seattle Mariners 56 630 [42]
1997
McGwire, MarkMark McGwire (2)
Oakland Athletics
St. Louis Cardinals 58 583 [41]
1998
Vaughn, GregGreg Vaughn
San Diego Padres 50 355 [43]
1998
Griffey, Jr., KenKen Griffey, Jr. (2)
Seattle Mariners 56 630 [42]
1998
Sosa, SammySammy Sosa
Chicago Cubs 66 609 [44]
1998
McGwire, MarkMark McGwire (3)
St. Louis Cardinals 70^ 583 [41]
1999
Sosa, SammySammy Sosa (2)
Chicago Cubs 63 609 [44]
1999
McGwire, MarkMark McGwire (4)
St. Louis Cardinals 65 583 [41]
2000
Sosa, SammySammy Sosa (3)
Chicago Cubs 50 609 [44]
2001
Rodriguez, AlexAlex Rodriguez
Texas Rangers 52 696 [45]
2001
Gonzalez, LuisLuis Gonzalez
Arizona Diamondbacks 57 354 [46]
2001
Sosa, SammySammy Sosa (4)
Chicago Cubs 64 609 [44]
2001
Bonds, BarryBarry Bonds
San Francisco Giants 73^ 762 [47]
2002
Thome, JimJim Thome
Cleveland Indians 52 612 [48]
2002
Rodriguez, AlexAlex Rodriguez (2)
Texas Rangers 57 696 [45]
2005
Jones, AndruwAndruw Jones
Atlanta Braves 51 434 [49]
2006
Howard, RyanRyan Howard
Philadelphia Phillies 58 382 [8]
2006
Ortiz, DavidDavid Ortiz
Boston Red Sox 54 541 [50]
2007
Rodriguez, AlexAlex Rodriguez (3)
New York Yankees 54 696 [45]
2007
Fielder, PrincePrince Fielder[A]
Milwaukee Brewers 50 319 [52]
2010
Bautista, JoséJosé Bautista
Toronto Blue Jays 54 328 [53]
2013
Davis, ChrisChris Davis
Baltimore Orioles 53 261 [54]
2017
Stanton, GiancarloGiancarlo Stanton
Miami Marlins 59 267 [55]
2017
Judge, AaronAaron Judge
New York Yankees 52 56 [56]
See also[edit]
Baseball portal
List of Major League Baseball home run champions
Major League Baseball single-season home run record
List of Major League Baseball home run records
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Although Fielder is not officially retired, he will spend the remaining four years of his contract on the 60-day disabled list.[51]
References[edit]
General
"Single-Season Leaders & Records for Home Runs". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
Specific
Jump up ^ Johnston, Joey (July 1987). "Will 50-Homer Seasons Become Extinct in the Majors?". Baseball Digest. Evanston, IL, USA: Century Publishing. 46 (7): 60–61. ISSN 0005-609X. [permanent dead link]
Jump up ^ Smith, Claire (September 29, 1997). "On Baseball; Numbers Tell It All: 1997 Was Impressive". The New York Times. Retrieved July 4, 2012. Larry Walker...missed joining McGwire and Griffey in the 50 home run club (49).
Jump up ^ Bastian, Jordan (September 19, 2010). "Bautista belts 49th as Jays edge Red Sox". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved July 4, 2012. Bautista['s]...next blast will put him in the 50 home run club.
Jump up ^ "Progressive Leaders & Records for Home Runs". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Babe Ruth Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Single-Season Leaders & Records for Home Runs". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
Jump up ^ Kepner, Tyler (September 25, 2017). "Aaron Judge Hits 2 More Homers, Breaking Mark McGwire's Rookie Record". The New York Times. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "Ryan Howard Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Career Leaders & Records for Home Runs". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Career Leaders & Records for Hits". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Most Valuable Player MVP Awards & Cy Young Awards Winners". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Mantle Eligible for 'Hall' Today". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. January 16, 1974. p. 24. Retrieved July 4, 2012. Mantle took the triple crown in 1956 when he batted .353 with 52 home runs and 130 runs batted in.
Jump up ^ "Mickey Mantle Named Most Valuable Player". The Milwaukee Journal. November 15, 1956. p. 20. Retrieved July 4, 2012. Mantle, who won the triple batting crown..., became the eighth man in history to win the batting, home run and runs batted in titles in one season. [He] led the league, both leagues in fact, with a .353 batting average, 52 homers and 130 runs batted in. [permanent dead link]
Jump up ^ "1956 Major League Baseball Batting Leaders". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
Jump up ^ Singer, Tom (August 24, 2011). "Plenty of duos have look of M&M Boys". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. Retrieved July 27, 2012. [T]heir combined total of 115 still stands as the benchmark for teammates.
Jump up ^ "A Short History of the Single-Season Home Run Record". National Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved July 4, 2012. [Maris] and Mantle...broke the record for most single-season home runs by a pair of teammates.
Jump up ^ Carter, Bob (September 5, 2006). "Belle battled fans, teammates, self". ESPN. ESPN Internet Ventures. Archived from the original on September 20, 2011. Retrieved July 5, 2012. In 1995,...he became the first player to amass 50 doubles and 50 homers in the same year.
Jump up ^ "Belle is forgotten man". The Spokesman-Review. September 27, 1998. p. C5. Retrieved July 5, 2012. [H]e became the first player to hit 50 homers and 50 doubles in 1995.
Jump up ^ "Prince hits 50, but it's 52 he wants to 'shut up' his dad". ESPN. ESPN Internet Ventures. September 26, 2007. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Baseball; Giants' Bonds Is Fastest to 50 Homers". The New York Times. August 12, 2001. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
Jump up ^ Leonard, George K. (October 1954). "37 Stars Hit 50 Homers in Year!". Baseball Digest. Evanston, IL, USA: Century Publishing. 13 (9): 43. ISSN 0005-609X. Retrieved July 11, 2012. Not as exclusive as the "Four Homers in One Game Club" but, nevertheless, a restrictive sort of fraternity is that comprising batters who have blasted 50—or more—home runs in one season. This group of slugging elite... [permanent dead link]
Jump up ^ "Rules for Election". National Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
Jump up ^ Chass, Murray (September 30, 2001). "Baseball: Notebook; Measure of Inflation For Home Run Race". The New York Times. Retrieved July 15, 2012. I think it takes some of the luster off the numbers that some of the best players established...
Jump up ^ Schwarz, Alan (June 9, 2002). "Ideas & Trends; Scoring Hits, Runs and Asterisks". The New York Times. Retrieved July 15, 2012. Where 50 home runs in a season once meant something (just 18 players did it before 1995), 16 have since...
Jump up ^ Krawczynski, Jon (October 2, 2010). "Bautista's homer binge brings questions". USA Today. Retrieved July 15, 2012. McGwire has admitted to using steroids during his career and Sosa and Bonds have been dogged by allegations.
Jump up ^ Bloom, Barry M. (December 13, 2007). "Mitchell Report proposes solutions". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
Jump up ^ Kepner, Tyler (February 9, 2009). "Rodriguez Admits to Use of Performance Enhancers". The New York Times. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
Jump up ^ Schmidt, Michael S. (July 30, 2009). "Ortiz and Ramirez Said to Be on 2003 Doping List". The New York Times. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Hack Wilson Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b "Jimmie Foxx Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
Jump up ^ "Hank Greenberg Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Johnny Mize Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b "Ralph Kiner Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b "Willie Mays Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b "Mickey Mantle Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Roger Maris Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "George Foster Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Cecil Fielder Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Albert Belle Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Brady Anderson Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d "Mark McGwire Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
^ Jump up to: a b "Ken Griffey Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Greg Vaughn Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d "Sammy Sosa Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Alex Rodriguez Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Luis Gonzalez Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Barry Bonds Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Jim Thome Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Andruw Jones Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "David Ortiz Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ Sullivan, T.R. (August 10, 2016). "Fielder announces playing career over". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Prince Fielder Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Jose Bautista Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Chris Davis Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Giancarlo Stanton Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Aaron Judge Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
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Sneakers (1992 film)
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Sneakers
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Phil Alden Robinson
Produced by
Lawrence Lasker
Walter Parkes
Written by
Phil Alden Robinson
Lawrence Lasker
Walter Parkes
Starring
Robert Redford
Dan Aykroyd
Ben Kingsley
Mary McDonnell
River Phoenix
Sidney Poitier
David Strathairn
Music by
James Horner
Cinematography
John Lindley
Edited by
Tom Rolf
Production
company
Universal Studios
Distributed by
Universal Studios
Release date
September 11, 1992 (US)
Running time
126 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$35 million
Box office
$105,232,691
Sneakers is a 1992 American comedy caper film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, written by Robinson, Walter Parkes, and Lawrence Lasker, and starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier and David Strathairn.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
5 Reception
6 TV series
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
In 1969, students Martin Brice and Cosmo are sneakers who hack into computer networks using university equipment, to redistribute conservative funds to various liberal causes. The police burst in and arrest Cosmo while Martin is out getting pizza, and Martin becomes a fugitive.
In the present day, Martin, now called Martin Bishop, is running a team of security specialists in San Francisco, including Donald Crease, a former CIA officer and family man; Darren "Mother" Roskow, a conspiracy theorist and electronics technician; Carl Arbogast, a young hacking genius; and Irwin "Whistler" Emery, a blind phone phreak.
Martin is approached by NSA officers Dick Gordon and Buddy Wallace, who know of his former identity. In exchange for clearing his record, he's asked to recover a "black box" from mathematician Dr. Gunter Janek, who has developed the box under the project name "Setec Astronomy" supposedly for the Russian government. Martin is hesitant but agrees to help. With help from his former girlfriend, Liz, Martin and his team secure the box, which is disguised as a telephone answering machine. During their subsequent celebration party, Whistler, Mother, and Carl investigate the box, finding it capable of breaking the encryption of nearly every computer system. Martin works out that "Setec Astronomy" is an anagram of "too many secrets", and issues a lockdown until they can deliver the box the next day.
Martin hands the box to the NSA officers, but quickly leaves after Crease discovers that Janek was killed the night before. He contacts a friend named Gregor in the Russian consulate, who confirms that the officers were rogue agents, and that Janek was working for the NSA. Before Gregor can elaborate further, fake FBI agents kill him and kidnap Martin to a remote location where he's reunited with Cosmo, who Martin thought had died in prison. While in prison, Cosmo developed ties with organized crime, allowing him to escape and become wealthy. He explains his plan to use Janek's box to destabilize the world economy, and offers Martin the chance to join him. Martin refuses, whereupon Cosmo uses the box to break into the FBI and connect Martin's current identity with his former name. Cosmo has Martin knocked out and taken back to the city.
Martin contacts his team and they relocate to Liz's apartment. They contact NSA agent Abbott, who wants the box but cannot offer assistance without it being in Martin's possession. Whistler analyzes the sounds that Martin heard during his kidnapping, and is able to identify the geographic area where Martin was taken. They find a toy company at that location, which is a front for Cosmo's operation. They track down Werner Brandes, the employee whose office is next to Cosmo's. They set Liz up with a fake computer date with Brandes to get his keycard and vocal recognition codes, while the others identify other security features of Cosmo's office. The team successfully get into the building to recover the box.
Brandes begins to suspect Liz during the date, and alerts Cosmo to a possible break-in. Once Liz mentions the computer date in Cosmo's presence, he realizes that Martin is responsible and locks down the facility and holds Martin at gunpoint. Again he tries to convince Martin to join him, but Martin refuses and instead turns over the box. The team escapes before Cosmo realizes that he is holding an empty duplicate of the box's case.
Back at their offices, Martin's team is surrounded by agents led by Abbott. After Martin points out how important the secrecy of the box is to the NSA, who could use it to spy on other agencies, Abbott agrees to clear Martin's record and grant the requests of the rest of his team. After Abbott and the agents leave with the box, Martin shows his team he has rendered the box useless by taking out the main processor.
In a postscript, a news report describes the sudden bankruptcy of the Republican National Committee, and the simultaneous receipt of large anonymous donations by Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and the United Negro College Fund.
Cast[edit]
Robert Redford as Martin Bishop/Martin Brice
Ben Kingsley as Cosmo
Sidney Poitier as Donald Crease
David Strathairn as Irwin "Whistler" Emery
Dan Aykroyd as Darren "Mother" Roskow
River Phoenix as Carl Arbogast
Mary McDonnell as Liz
Stephen Tobolowsky as Werner Brandes
Timothy Busfield as Dick Gordon
Eddie Jones as Buddy Wallace
George Hearn as Gregor
Donal Logue as Dr. Gunter Janek
Lee Garlington as Dr. Elena Rhyzkov
James Earl Jones as NSA Agent Bernard Abbott
Production[edit]
Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes first conceived the idea for Sneakers in 1981, while doing research for WarGames.[1] In early drafts, the character of Liz was a bank employee, rather than Martin's ex-girlfriend. The role was changed because Lasker and Parkes believed that it took too long for her character to develop.[1]
Once Robert Redford was attached to the picture, his name was used to recruit other members of the cast and crew, including the director Robinson, who had little initial interest in the project but had always wanted to work with Redford.[1]
At one point during the project, Robinson received a visit from men claiming to be representatives of the Office of Naval Intelligence, who indicated that for reasons of national security, the film could not include any references to "a hand-held device that can decode codes". Robinson was highly concerned, as such a device was a key to the film's plot, but after consulting with a lawyer from the film studio he realized that the "visit" had been a prank instigated by a member of the cast, possibly Aykroyd or Redford.[1]
"I can't remember having so much fun on a movie," Stephen Tobolowsky recalled in 2012 for a 20th anniversary piece about the film for Slate. He had initially scoffed at the script based on its title alone, but his agent persuaded him to actually read it, and he reconsidered. Afterward, he told his agent, "Now I know what a hundred million dollars at the box office reads like."[2]
"It was one of the most spectacular casts I've ever been lucky enough to be a part of," Tobolowsky wrote. When he was shooting the scene where he and McDonnell eat at a Chinese restaurant, Robinson told him he could do anything he wanted to make her laugh. "Dangerous words. It set the tone for the rest of the shoot," he recalls. "I played with my food. I made up lines (including one about pounding chicken breasts in the kitchen during our second date)." The rest of the cast and crew felt similarly. Near the end of the shoot Robinson said the only way it could have been better would have been if the lab lost the film, so they would have had to do it all over again.[2]
Release[edit]
The film's press kit was accompanied by a floppy disk containing a custom program explaining the movie. Parts of the program were quasi-encrypted, requiring the user to enter an easily guessable password to proceed.[3]
Reception[edit]
The film received mixed reviews from critics upon its release. Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan called Sneakers "[a] caper movie with a most pleasant sense of humor," a "twisting plot," and a "witty, hang-loose tone." Turan went on to praise the ensemble cast and director Robinson, who is "surprisingly adept at creating tension at appropriate moments" and "makes good use of the script's air of clever cheerfulness".[4] Roger Ebert, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, was less impressed, giving the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it "a sometimes entertaining movie, but thin." He went on to point out numerous cliches and tired plot devices recycled in the film.[5] Vincent Canby, in a negative review for The New York Times, said the film looked like it had "just surfaced after being buried alive for 20 years," calling it "an atrophied version of a kind of caper movie that was so beloved in the early 1970's". He singled out Redford and Poitier as looking and acting too old to be in this kind of film now. He calls the plot "feeble," resulting in a film that is "jokey without being funny, breathless without creating suspense". He calls the ensemble an "all star gang," but says the "performances are generally quite bad."[6]
The film was a box office success, grossing over $105.2 million worldwide.[7]
TV series[edit]
As of October 2016, NBC is developing a TV series based on the film.[8]
See also[edit]
List of films featuring surveillance
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d Weidman, Sara (October 8, 1992). "A Decade Later, 'Sneakers' is Complete". The Michigan Daily. p. 8.
^ Jump up to: a b Tobolowsky, Stephen (September 10, 2012). "Memories of the Sneakers Shoot". Slate. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Sneakers Computer Press Kit". Internet Archive. July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
Jump up ^ "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Sneakers': A Caper With Lots of Twists". Los Angeles Times. 1992-09-09. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
Jump up ^ Roger Ebert (September 9, 1992). "Sneakers". RogerEbert.com. Ebert Digital LLC. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Reviews/Film; A 1970's Caper Movie With Heroes of the Time". The New York Times. 1992-09-09. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
Jump up ^ "Sneakers Races to the Top Spot". Los Angeles Times. 1992-09-15. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
Jump up ^ "'Sneaker' Hacker Drama Based On Movie In Works At NBC From Walter Parkes, Laurie Macdonald & Tom Szentgyorgyi". Deadline. 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
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