Fat City PG

Life is what happens in between rounds.
Fat City
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Format:  DVD-R
item number:  ASCS
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  • 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

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 2,322
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.
Uncut
Jul 1, 2010
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. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Oct 3, 2015
A knockout scene by that grand old battler, John Huston. Full Review
New York Times
Jan 10, 2018
A terse, sharp, downbeat but compassionate look at the underside of smalltown American life in the west. Full Review
Variety
Jan 29, 2010
Marvellous, grimly downbeat study of desperate lives and the escape routes people construct for themselves, stunningly shot by Conrad Hall.
Time Out
Jan 26, 2006
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. Full Review
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 2, 2020
In addition to the splendid cinematography, along with the songs that animate the soundtrack, the acting is outstanding. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
El Pais (Spain)
Jul 23, 2019

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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.

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  • UPC: 043396398528
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