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Money Train
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| Money Train | |
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 The movie poster for Money Train. |
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| Directed by | Joseph Ruben |
| Produced by | Neil Canton Jon Peters |
| Written by | Doug Richardson David Loughery Vincent Patrick |
| Starring | Wesley Snipes Woody Harrelson Jennifer Lopez Robert Blake Chris Cooper |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 22, 1995 |
| Running time | 103 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $68,000,000 (estimated) |
| IMDb profile | |
Money Train (1995) is a movie starring Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and Jennifer Lopez in one of her first roles before she became an accomplished actress and singer. The three work 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.
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 City Transit Museum. The actual money train resembled a normal maintenance train painted yellow with black digonal 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.
The film was vilified for its portrayal of a man setting fire to token booths, a crime that was repeated in real life after the film's release.[1]
- ^ Cash and Carry. New York Times (2006). Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
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