Color       Running time approximately 135 minutes

An unreachable shot to the green. A hopeless romance. Driving-range pro Roy McAvoy can't resist an impossible challenge. Each is what he calls a defining moment. You define it. Or it defines you.

With lady-killer charm and a game that can make par with garden tools, Kevin Costner rejoins Bull Durham filmmaker Ron Shelton for another funny tale of the games that people play. For Costner's Roy, golf is a head -- and heart -- game. On both counts, that's where shrink Molly Griswold (Rene Russo) comes in. She's big city, Roy's small time, and he believes only the grandest of gestures can lure her away from a slick touring pro (Don Johnson) and earn her love.

So Roy and his dutiful caddy (Cheech Marin) set out to do the impossible - win the U S Open. With laughs, clever battle-of-the sexes banter and a handy way with a 7-iron, TIN CUP winningly defines the moment and contemporary romantic comedy.

A washed-up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the U S Open in order to win the heart of his successful rival's girlfriend. But Roy has a fatal flaw - the inability to resist a dare, all too often causing him to lose to lessor players, in this case gambling away his car. His talent proves more than adequate, but over-confident negligence of risks, while pleasing the crowds, is murder on his scores, while Simms spits on the fans but never wastes a point.

"Blissfully romantic and funny. Costner gives his sexiest and wittiest performance since Bull Durham. Russo is magical."...Peter Travers, Rolling Stone