RPM (also known as R.P.M.) is a 1998 action film starring David Arquette, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Famke Janssen. It was shot in 1997 and first released on video in Germany on June 23, 1998. and in the United States and Canada on September 19, 2000.
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Plot
Luke Delson (David Arquette) is a professional carjacker who is currently residing in Los Angeles. After a call, he decides to go to Nice, to track a car for an oil oligarch, Constantine Charkos. The car, named RPM, can apparently drive without any kind of power source. Charkos, afraid that the mass production of the car would destroy his oil empire, offers him 1 billion dollars to steal it. But with the police detective on his tail, Biggerman, the man who built RPM, and also his sister Claudia (Famke Janssen), who wants the money, on his tail, he will find it very difficult to steal the car. Along the way, he meets Charkos' girl (Emmanuelle Seigner), who wants her car back (which Luke has stolen, but Claudia took it). She helps him steal the RPM in exchange for bringing her car back and the two eventually start a romance.
Cast
David Arquette as Luke Delson
Emmanuelle Seigner as Michelle Claire
Famke Janssen as Claudia Haggs
Steve John Shepherd as Rudy
Stephen Yardley as Chiarkos
Kenneth Cranham as Biggerman
John Bluthal as Grinkstein
Jean-Luc Bideau as Inspector LeBlanc
Debora Weston as Georgie
George Rossi as Zantos
Bob Sherman as Karl Delson
Jonathan Cecil as Lord Baxter
Patrick Allen as Millionaire
Jerry Hall as Bored Girlfriend
Stephane Eichenholc as Undercover Cop
Jeff Harding as Tim Ryan
Sheri Graubert as Karen
James Larkin as Jonqull
John Clive as Bentley Man
Production
The film was mostly shot in the forests of France and in the Nice. The production ended in the summer of 1997. The film was recognized for many famous cars in the movie.