A year before 1997’s Volcano duked it out with Dante’s Peak for cinema’s ultimate lava fest, and two whole years before 1998’s extinction-level matchup of Armageddon versus Deep Impact, 1996 saw Hollywood first dabble in duel themed releases when twin golfing bombs exploded across screens in the form of Happy Gilmore and this month’s review: Tin Cup.
While Happy Gilmore chronicled the growth of a violent sociopath from juvenile idiot to famous juvenile idiot (see Golf Australia’s May issue, on the other hand starts as a subtle exploration of a self-destructive man and ends with that man performing a very public act of self-destruction.
