Fat City (1972)
Country: US
Technical: col 96m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges
Synopsis:
An old timer teaches a rising young hopeful boxer the ropes.
Review:
Unlike anything he had done before, this could fairly be said to be Huston's contribution to the counter-culture of the early seventies, a case of 'we old boys can do a movie in which the pace is slow and nothing much happens', too. The theme of the quest is still there, alright, only this time it is 'dumbed down', shorn of all its romanticism. The most affecting character is the manager, full of blind faith in each one of his protégés: this will be the one. An eminently credible picture of the struggle for the American Dream as it is lived, it provided Bridges and Keach with a fine opportunity to do some of their best work.
Country: US
Technical: col 96m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges
Synopsis:
An old timer teaches a rising young hopeful boxer the ropes.
Review:
Unlike anything he had done before, this could fairly be said to be Huston's contribution to the counter-culture of the early seventies, a case of 'we old boys can do a movie in which the pace is slow and nothing much happens', too. The theme of the quest is still there, alright, only this time it is 'dumbed down', shorn of all its romanticism. The most affecting character is the manager, full of blind faith in each one of his protégés: this will be the one. An eminently credible picture of the struggle for the American Dream as it is lived, it provided Bridges and Keach with a fine opportunity to do some of their best work.
Country: US
Technical: col 96m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges
Synopsis:
An old timer teaches a rising young hopeful boxer the ropes.
Review:
Unlike anything he had done before, this could fairly be said to be Huston's contribution to the counter-culture of the early seventies, a case of 'we old boys can do a movie in which the pace is slow and nothing much happens', too. The theme of the quest is still there, alright, only this time it is 'dumbed down', shorn of all its romanticism. The most affecting character is the manager, full of blind faith in each one of his protégés: this will be the one. An eminently credible picture of the struggle for the American Dream as it is lived, it provided Bridges and Keach with a fine opportunity to do some of their best work.