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Tin Cup 
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The Reviews Kevin Costner's good luck is called Ron Shelton. Between Shelton's baseball movie, Bull Durham, in which Costner was excellent, and the director-writer's new golf comedy, Tin Cup, in which Costner is even better.But as Roy McAvoy, an ordinary man with two extraordinary qualities - his erratic golfing genius and his consistent bullheadedness - this actor gives us a Hemingway hero for these post-Hemingway times, not a stoic old titan tacitly watching sharks nibble away his big catch, but a fool persisting in his folly until a kind of wisdom, and a good woman, are won. Slamming his ball again and again into a lake instead of taking par and moving up to the green, McAvoy sends spasms of agony into the crowd watching, and we in the theater may groan, too; but Rene Russo, as the love of McAvoy's life, knows better. She dissolves into giggles, shakes her head, and delivers the right verdict: "He's crazy!" Shelton's direction finds suspense in the arc of a golf ball in flight, and comedy in the verbal dueling between a player and his caddy, prima donnas both. His moviemaking is as relaxed and yet as purposeful as a good golfer's stroke. Commonweal, Sept 27, 1996, Richard Alleva When it comes to golf, there is no in-between: people either love it with a religious fervor or despise it as a stupid game played by rich people in bad slacks. But Tin Cup-starring Kevin Costner as an underachieving driving-range golf pro trying to make it into the prestigious U.S. Open-offers something for both camps. Funny, irreverent and always smarter than it pretends to be, Tin Cup carefully treads a narrow path between sports esoterica and outright silliness-a good-humored stroll through the fairways of comedy Costner, has landed a role suited to his homespun style. His Roy (Tin Cup)McAvoy is a rube poet, a drinking-class intellectual who rhapsodizes about the quest for a perfect swing even as he fritters his potential away at a desolate small-town driving range. Every sport has its McAvoys, those undeniable talents who never make the big time because of a mysterious fatal flaw. In his case, it is an in-ability to know when to lay up-he always "goes for it," in his life and in golf, usually with disastrous results. But when he falls for a cerebral psychologist (Rene Russo) who just happens to be dating a longtime golf rival (Don Johnson), McAvoy goes for it yet again, heading off on a knight errant's quest to win the most coveted title in golf, and the girl Not surprisingly, the movie strongly resembles Bull Durham, the hit 1988 baseball comedy starring Costner and written and directed by Ron Shelton, co-writer and director of Tin Cup. Like its predecessor, Tin Cup focuses more on relationships among the characters than the sport itself. And there seems to be real chemistry between Costner and the other actors (especially Cheech Marin, who is terrific as McAvoy's caddie and best friend). The result is a goofily charming movie. Joe Chidley Maclean's, August 26, 1996
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