RoboCop

RoboCop
RoboCop
Directed by	Paul Verhoeven
Written by	Edward Neumeier; Michael Miner;
Produced by	Arne Schmidt
Starring	Peter Weller; Nancy Allen; Daniel O'Herlihy; Ronny Cox; Kurtwood Smith; Miguel Ferrer;
Cinematography	Jost Vacano
Edited by	Frank J. Urioste
Music by	Basil Poledouris
Distributed by	Orion Pictures
Release date	July 17, 1987;
Running time	102 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$13 million
Box office	$53.4 million (US)

RoboCop is a 1987 science fiction action^[3] 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.^[4] 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".^[5] The movie had two sequels, RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993). A remake of this movie was released in February 2014.

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"Box Office Information for RoboCop". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
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S. Perkowitz, Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), p. 150
[5]
Elaine L. Graham, Representations of the Post/human: Monsters, Aliens, and Others in Popular Culture (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002), p. 209

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