Tin Cup

1996 Directed by Ron Shelton

Golf Pro. Love Amateur.

A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.

Kevin Costner Rene Russo Don Johnson Cheech Marin George Perez Linda Hart Dennis Burkley Rex Linn Lou Myers Richard Lineback Mickey Jones Michael Milhoan Melissa Young Kris Ancira

Alternative Title

Fejjel a falnak

romance comedy

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Review by matt lynch ★★ 1

Turns out you can be a maverick at golf. Who knew
Review by Ian Curran ★★★★ 4

Costner is the sports movie 🐐!
What sets this sports movie performance apart from his others is the fact that he plays a semi-loser. He’s stubborn and can’t get out of his own way. I love when actors play against type.
Review by Andy Summers ★★★★

Kevin Costner was on the down slope of his career when he popped up in this very entertaining romantic sports comedy. Directed by Ron Shelton of Bull Durham fame, this reunited star Costner with a man who relishes in making movies centered around sports. Swapping Baseball for Golf this time around, it may lack a certain Susan Sarandon's sex appeal, but it makes up for it with some great interplay between Costner and best buddy Cheech Marin.
Roy "Tin Cup" McAvoy (Costner) is a driving range pro who is one step up from a bum. Lacking ambition or any sort of drive in life, he is suddenly reinvigorated when a beautiful psychologist (Rene Russo) arrives for golf lessons. Attracted to…
Review by Meg ★ 4

I may seem a little on edge right now, but I have major ear infection and felt like my head was gonna explode all day and the internet wasn't working and I didn't have my DVDs and the TV at the house I am sitting at wasn't working EXCEPT THE. GOLF. CHANNEL.
THERE IS A THING CALLED THE GOLF CHANNEL.
AND IT PLAYED THIS MOVIE FROM THE 90S ABOUT GOLF.
AND I AM ON EDGE, BECAUSE MY ENTIRE FACE HURTS AND I HAVE HAD TO WATCH THREE '90S KEVIN COSTNER FILMS IN A ROW. BECAUSE OF A CRUEL TWIST OF FATE THAT IS FATE CLEARLY LOVES '90S KEVIN COSTNER.
AND THIS GOLF MOVIE WAS LIKE TWO AND HALF HOURS LONG AND IT PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN 75 MINUTES LONG, BUT KEVIN COSTNER ONLY ACTS IN FILMS WHICH ARE AT LEAST 45 MINUTES TOO LONG. THIS IS APPARENTLY THE WORLD'S ONLY GOLF EPIC. I HATE EVERYTHING.
Please make it all stop.
Review by BestVista ★★★★

We'll come to 'Tin Cup' in a moment.
The Coen brothers tend to keep their cards very close to their chests, and generally withhold much of an insight into the processes and inspirations behind their own creations. And that's fine, that's their prerogative as artists to preserve their own enigma in order to keep the mysteries of their movies interesting and alive.
There is one question, though, that I hope someone asks them one day, because it's vexed me for years. And it's only recently been exacerbated by my viewing of both 'The Big Lebowski' and 'Tin Cup' in close proximity. And it's basically this:
Isn't Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy basically a major inspiration for The Dude in embryonic form?…
Review by megan ★★ 1

what a way to end 2018
Review by Connor Carey ★★★½

"Tin Cup" is way too long and is about as predictable as they come but it's another really enjoyable sports film from Ron Shelton and Kevin Costner. Costner makes for such a charismatic lead and Rene Russo and Don Johnson are also very good here too. The golfing sequences are fun to watch and Cheech Marin pretty much steals every scene he's in. Way better than I thought it would be.
Review by Wilson ★★★★½

I have seen Tin Cup roughly 150 times since 1996. I cannot remember the first time I saw it. It was probably on Sky Movies in 1997. But there was a point in my life, when I was 14 or 15 in '97 and '98 where I seemed to watch it every week. It was always on and I would always watch it. I am pretty sure I had it on VHS, but almost always watched it on Sky.
I am not saying that Tin Cup is the best movie of 1996, but it is better than The English Patient, which won Best Picture and Best Director, and Kevin Costner is better than Geoffrey Rush in Shine. It should have…
Review by willmoviefan97 ★★★½

This follows just about every cliche you can think from the sports/rom-com playbook, and in no way should clock in at about 2hrs 15mins, but as it stands, "Tin Cup" is still honestly one of the better and more charming ones of the lot. Costner is typically great, and he & Rene Russo certainly have a believable, sweet chemistry going on screen, while Don Johnson is surely perfectly cast as the prick antagonist. And it's always a plus seeing Cheech Marin pop up. This is just one of those pretty pleasant, entertaining, and easy films to watch if not too much else.
And can I just say what quite a stunner Rene Russo was back in the day 😍🥵? (Actually by all means, the Thor films & Nightcrawler surely show she's aged marvelously)!
Review by Ian Mantgani

There are many flaws in this motion picture, but there is also a moment when Kevin Costner breaks a US Open record and then proceeds directly to Waffle House, at which point there is a conversation extolling at length the unique virtues of Waffle House. To which I say, God Bless America.
Review by J E S S 🌈 V. K ★★★

This is a silly, almost insulting film but WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THIS TYPE OF FUN IN FILM ANYMORE!
I always love a good Kevin Costner film, though this isn't his best it still hits the spot. I like that though there are lessons taught and learned they are not the ones you expect. Basically he gets to literally play by his own rules, even if that costs him in the long run. The romance is hilariously bad but it's a macguffin anyway.
Review by aklingus ★★

A movie I saw with my dad because my dad loves golf and tried very hard to get me into it (it never took, although I got decent at putting at one point). While I don’t remember much about it besides it being very long, I do remember the ending, and let me say that this ending falls under the rarest of personal movie categories - “movies where the ending makes sense with how the film plays out, but it still sucks anyway”. I think the only other movie in that category for me is The Empire Strikes Back.*
* just kidding

Recent reviews

Review by J VDH ★★★

Best golf romcom with a phil mickelson cameo ever
Review by Ian Curran ★★★★ 4

Costner is the sports movie 🐐!
What sets this sports movie performance apart from his others is the fact that he plays a semi-loser. He’s stubborn and can’t get out of his own way. I love when actors play against type.
Review by Brian Skutle ★★★★

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Review by Tanfoi ★★★½

I wasn't expecting to be that hyped about gold, the music help a lot to make it look epic
Review by Daniel Grzywacz ★★★★

If Bull Durham got a Criterion release, does that mean we will also end up getting releases for WMCJ and Tin Cup? I want one of those extra fancy box sets so I can put “Ron Shelton’s Lovable Idiots Playing Sports Trilogy” on my shelf in between Rossellini’s War Trilogy and Three Colors. I’d really, really get a kick out of that. Please make it happen, Benevolent Criterion Overlords.
Review by Vegas3030 ★★★★★

This movie is everything. It’s tragedy, it’s pain, it’s beauty, it’s greatness. It’s all about learning who you are and embracing it, understanding that there are parts of you that will always hold you back. And questioning whether or not those parts of you should be erased for the sake of conformity or embraced for the sake of character, for the sake of happiness. And most of all for me right now it’s about never settling for angering less than the burning passion in my soul, or my “loins” to quote the film.
Review by Jack Brink ★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Everything’s pretty flimsy for the most part, especially the love angle and just how it goes about moving through its goofy plot, but Costner and Cheech’s natural charm really shine through and make the film way more fun than it has any right to be.
It’s just...the ending sucks. It fucking sucks. It’s so dumb and kills any sembleance of character arcs or story progression found within the movie. I hated it so much.
Review by ShawniesFlicks ★★★½

Good golf movie. Very predictable, but enjoyable.
Review by Jesse Carp ★★★★

hot and sweaty with an all-time finish.
Review by Samrothstein ★★★★

Tendrá ciertos clichés y mucho romance sumándole que el personaje de Cheech martin no es tan agradable como te lo trata de mostrar la película pero Kevin Costner y Don Johnson sacan aplausos porque cumplen muy bien y tienen unos diálogos muy buenos
Review by Henrik Wilhelmsson ★★★½

Tin Cup is a nice little film, but nothing you really remember.
Review by Seth Tauri ★★

a lot of milk for Texas