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| name           = RoboCop
| director       = [[Paul Verhoeven]]
| producer       = Arne Schmidt
| writer         = {{Plainlist|
* [[Edward Neumeier]]
* Michael Miner }}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Peter Weller]]
* [[Nancy Allen (actress)|Nancy Allen]]
* [[Dan O'Herlihy|Daniel O'Herlihy]]
* [[Ronny Cox]]
* [[Kurtwood Smith]]
* [[Miguel Ferrer]] }}
| music          = [[Basil Poledouris]]
| cinematography = [[Jost Vacano]]
| editing        = [[Frank J. Urioste]]
| distributor    = [[Orion Pictures]] 
| released       = {{Film date|1987|07|17}}
| runtime        = 102 minutes<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/View.aspx?sid=5lqeoRQqyhIzdX1X9wSpNA%253d%253d&ncdctx=uqMRlpqViGv6Skqdi2zUiPMl1P7flOSxQptxqaYlnpXK588698kELYYSbGNMhcHQ |title=Classification.gov.au |access-date=2018-01-25 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402150221/http://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/View.aspx?sid=5lqeoRQqyhIzdX1X9wSpNA%253d%253d&ncdctx=uqMRlpqViGv6Skqdi2zUiPMl1P7flOSxQptxqaYlnpXK588698kELYYSbGNMhcHQ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $13 million<ref name="box office">{{cite web|url=http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=robocop.htm |title=Box Office Information for ''RoboCop'' |publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]] |accessdate=March 21, 2012}}</ref>
| gross          = $53.4 million (US)<ref name="box office"/>
}}
'''''RoboCop''''' is a 1987 [[science fiction]] [[action movie|action]]<ref name=complex>{{cite web|url=http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/11/the-50-best-action-movies-of-all-time/robocop|title=The 50 Best Action Movies of All Time|author=<!-- Staff -->|work=[[Complex Networks|Complex]]|date=November 23, 2016|accessdate=May 6, 2017|archive-date=March 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313061718/http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/11/the-50-best-action-movies-of-all-time/robocop|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[crime movie]]. It is [[Movie director|directed]] by [[Paul Verhoeven]]. The movie stars [[Peter Weller]], [[Nancy Allen (actress)|Nancy Allen]], [[Dan O'Herlihy]], [[Kurtwood Smith]], [[Miguel Ferrer]], and [[Ronny Cox]]. It is set in a [[crime]]-ridden [[dystopia]]n [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]] in the near future where the [[police force]] is run by Security Concepts, a [[corporation]].<ref>S. Perkowitz, ''Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), p. 150</ref> ''RoboCop'' centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is brutally [[attack]]ed and fatally wounded by a gang of [[criminal]]s. He is then made into a [[cyborg]] law enforcer known as "RoboCop".<ref>Elaine L. Graham, ''Representations of the Post/human: Monsters, Aliens, and Others in Popular Culture'' (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002), p. 209</ref> The movie had two [[sequel]]s, ''[[RoboCop 2]]'' (1990) and ''[[RoboCop 3]]'' (1993). A [[RoboCop (2014 movie)|remake]] of this movie was released in February 2014.

==Cast==
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*[[Peter Weller]] as [[RoboCop (character)|Officer Alex J. Murphy / RoboCop]]
*[[Nancy Allen (actress)|Nancy Allen]] as Officer Anne Lewis
*[[Dan O'Herlihy|Daniel O'Herlihy]] as The Old Man
*[[Ronny Cox]] as Dick Jones
*[[Kurtwood Smith]] as Clarence Boddicker
*[[Miguel Ferrer]] as Bob Morton
*[[Robert DoQui]] as Sgt. Warren Reed
*[[Ray Wise]] as Leon C. Nash
*[[Felton Perry]] as Donald Johnson
*[[Paul McCrane]] as Emil Antonowsky
*[[Jesse D. Goins|Jesse Goins]] as Joe P. Cox
*[[Calvin Jung]] as Steve Minh
*Del Zamora as Kaplan
*Rick Lieberman as Walker
*[[Lee de Broux]] as Sal
*[[Edward Edwards (actor)|Edward Edwards]] as Manson
*Mark Carlton as Miller
*[[Michael Gregory (actor)|Michael Gregory]] as Lt. Hedgecock
*[[Kevin Page (actor)|Kevin Page]] as Kinney
*Angie Bolling as Ellen Murphy
*James Levine as Jimmy Murphy
*S.D. Nemeth as Bixby Snyder
*[[Mario Machado]] as Casey Wong
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==Other websites==
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*{{Rotten Tomatoes|1017712-robocop}}
*[http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4 Criterion Collection essay by Carrie Rickey]
*{{cite journal|title=The 'new bad future': Robocop and 1980s' Sci-Fi films|first1=Fred |last1=Glass| pages=7–49 | year= 1989| volume=1|issue=5| journal=Science as Culture| url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505438909526234|doi=10.1080/09505438909526234}}

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