The Hired Hand (1971)
Country: US
Technical: col 93m
Director: Peter Fonda
Cast: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom
Synopsis:
After spending time drifting with his buddy, a man returns home to his wife and farm, where he is accepted not without reserve. Rebuilding their relationship, they appear to have contentment within reach, but then he must make up his mind whether to help his friend in the hour of need.
Review:
Tedious 'realistic' Western, the vanity project of an actor who never quite found his niche, and one heavily overlaid with the aesthetics of a Cadbury's Flake commercial. (The 'montages' credit, generously bestowed on the editor, presumably refers to those endless lyrical, multi-angle, freeze-frame dissolves.) It is the kind of film that draws the adjective 'lyrical' from critics, which is another way of saying that very little happens and the characters don't get around to shaving much.
Country: US
Technical: col 93m
Director: Peter Fonda
Cast: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom
Synopsis:
After spending time drifting with his buddy, a man returns home to his wife and farm, where he is accepted not without reserve. Rebuilding their relationship, they appear to have contentment within reach, but then he must make up his mind whether to help his friend in the hour of need.
Review:
Tedious 'realistic' Western, the vanity project of an actor who never quite found his niche, and one heavily overlaid with the aesthetics of a Cadbury's Flake commercial. (The 'montages' credit, generously bestowed on the editor, presumably refers to those endless lyrical, multi-angle, freeze-frame dissolves.) It is the kind of film that draws the adjective 'lyrical' from critics, which is another way of saying that very little happens and the characters don't get around to shaving much.
Country: US
Technical: col 93m
Director: Peter Fonda
Cast: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom
Synopsis:
After spending time drifting with his buddy, a man returns home to his wife and farm, where he is accepted not without reserve. Rebuilding their relationship, they appear to have contentment within reach, but then he must make up his mind whether to help his friend in the hour of need.
Review:
Tedious 'realistic' Western, the vanity project of an actor who never quite found his niche, and one heavily overlaid with the aesthetics of a Cadbury's Flake commercial. (The 'montages' credit, generously bestowed on the editor, presumably refers to those endless lyrical, multi-angle, freeze-frame dissolves.) It is the kind of film that draws the adjective 'lyrical' from critics, which is another way of saying that very little happens and the characters don't get around to shaving much.