Electric Horseman
by Sydney Pollack
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Actor: Jane Fonda, John Saxon, Robert Redford, Valerie Perrine, Willie NelsonDirector: Sydney Pollack
Cinematographer: Owen Roizman
Producer: Ray Stark
Producer: Ronald L. Schwary
Writer: David Rayfiel
Writer: Paul Gaer
Writer: Robert Garland
Writer: Shelly Burton
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-05-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Summary of Electric Horseman
An ex-world champion cowboy reduced to selling breakfast cereal steals away on a multi-million dollar racehorse, and a TV reporter sets out to find out why, only to fall in love with him.When this picture came out in 1979, both Robert Redford and Jane Fonda were at the height of their stardom; in fact, this movie was so big, it took two studios (Columbia and Universal) to make it. Redford plays Sonny Steele, champion rodeo rider turned corporate spokesman (and perpetual drunk). When he discovers that another corporate asset, a racehorse, is just like him--dressed like a buffoon and doped up to the gills--he decides to liberate the animal. Redford's grumpy, wise, and funny performance demonstrates why he was (and is) such a big star (and why director Sydney Pollack made seven movies with him). Fonda is fine as the bright, ambitious, frightened TV reporter whose pursuit of a story pitches her headlong into love. The ending may seem anticlimatic (the big comedy chase comes in the middle of the film), but this is much more a romance story than a chase film. From the beginning, there's little doubt how the story will end (although even then, the movie throws us a little curve), but the movie compensates with sheer star power; Redford and Fonda are all that matter, and in this case they deliver, along with Willie Nelson's fine performance in a pivotal supporting role. --Geof Miller
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