Fat City PG
Life is what happens in between rounds.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 6, 2012
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Sony Pictures Home
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges & Susan Tyrrell | |
Performer: | Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto & Art Aragon | |
Directed by | John Huston | |
Edited by | Margaret Booth | |
Screenwriting by | Leonard Gardner | |
Composition by | Marvin Hamlisch | |
Produced by | Ray Stark | |
Director of Photography: | Conrad L. Hall |
Entertainment Reviews:
This poetic adaptation of Leonard Gardner's novel is the most human of all Huston's films, remains one of the greatest boxing movies, and has one of the most memorable closing sequences in all cinema.
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Rating: 3/4 --
With Leonard Gardner adapting his own book and John Huston sitting in the director's chair, Fat City adheres closer to real life than reel life, painting a portrait of a downtrodden existence not only among the have-nots but among the never-will-haves.
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Creative Loafing
A knockout scene by that grand old battler, John Huston.
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New York Times
A terse, sharp, downbeat but compassionate look at the underside of smalltown American life in the west.
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Variety
Marvellous, grimly downbeat study of desperate lives and the escape routes people construct for themselves, stunningly shot by Conrad Hall.
Time Out
The fight sequences are the best I've seen. But it is the acting, the feeling for character, which makes this film so extraordinarily different.
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Los Angeles Free Press
In addition to the splendid cinematography, along with the songs that animate the soundtrack, the acting is outstanding. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Description by OLDIES.com:
Two brothers, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum. Newly remastered.
Product Description:
Lesser known than films by Scorsese and Coppola, John Huston's masterly FAT
CITY is a classic story of the American underdog, and deserves its place in
the canon of great 1970s films. Adapted from a Leonard Gardner novel, this
sorely overlooked work brilliantly and unflinchingly portrays the lives of a
group of born losers.
Set in California, the story revolves around the lives of poor fighters. Stacy Keach is Tully, a down-on-his-luck alcoholic boxer living in a flophouse and earning money as a field worker while trying for a comeback. Jeff Bridges is Ernie, his 18-year-old protege who is setting himself up for the same hard-luck life. Tully tries to pass his wisdom on to Ernie, attempting to give the kid the chances that he missed. Meanwhile, Tully also becomes involved with Oma (Susan Tyrell), a raging alcoholic who does nothing but drag him further down. This film initially presents itself as
a Horatio Alger-like comeback or underdog story, but is actually a bleak, incisive character study. A downbeat classic, FAT CITY is one of the best films by director John Huston.
CITY is a classic story of the American underdog, and deserves its place in
the canon of great 1970s films. Adapted from a Leonard Gardner novel, this
sorely overlooked work brilliantly and unflinchingly portrays the lives of a
group of born losers.
Set in California, the story revolves around the lives of poor fighters. Stacy Keach is Tully, a down-on-his-luck alcoholic boxer living in a flophouse and earning money as a field worker while trying for a comeback. Jeff Bridges is Ernie, his 18-year-old protege who is setting himself up for the same hard-luck life. Tully tries to pass his wisdom on to Ernie, attempting to give the kid the chances that he missed. Meanwhile, Tully also becomes involved with Oma (Susan Tyrell), a raging alcoholic who does nothing but drag him further down. This film initially presents itself as
a Horatio Alger-like comeback or underdog story, but is actually a bleak, incisive character study. A downbeat classic, FAT CITY is one of the best films by director John Huston.
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- UPC: 043396398528
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