Fat City

Fat City
by John Huston

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Actor: Candy Clark, Jeff Bridges, Nicholas Colasanto, Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell
Director: John Huston
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-10
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: You can count on me
Summary: 4 Stars

I was unfamiliar with Fat City until I saw it referred to in a review of The Wrestler, and there are similarities in tone, theme and plot arc (what there is of it). Director Huston does a nice job of portraying the world of those down and out, and the performances by Keach, Bridges and Colasanto are strong (I am less sure of Tyrell as others are). Race is in the background throughout ("I'm not Irish"; "I told them you were so they'd know you're white"), but Huston doesn't push it. The boxing scenes are well done, keeping in mind these aren't title bouts. Kris Kristofferson is on the soundtrack.

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FAT CITY is a powerful and gripping story about personal wins and losses in the raw rugged world of amateur boxing. Directed by legendary Oscar?-winning filmmaker John Huston (1949 Best Director Best Screenplay The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) the film stars the incredible talents of Stacy Keach (American History X TV's "Mike Hammer") Jeff Bridges (Jagged Edge The Mirror Has Two Faces) Candy Clark (At Close Range American Graffiti) and Susan Tyrrell (Cry-Baby Powder) in her 1972 Best Supporting Actress Oscar?-nominated performance.System Requirements:Running Time: 96 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?PG UPC:?043396078888 Manufacturer No:?07888

Jeff Bridges stars as an amateur boxer on a brief rise who catches the eye of an aging pugilist (Stacy Keach) heading downward in this 1972 film by John Huston and based on the novel by Leonard Gardner. Keach becomes the younger man's mentor, and the two hit central California's tanktown circuit of small matches for small money, interspersed with visits to smoke-filled bars and hellish gyms. Theirs is a cut-rate dream, all right, but as real and driving--and finally just as punishing--as the mythical black bird itself in Huston's The Maltese Falcon. The cast is outstanding, the cinematography by Conrad Hall stunning, and the climax one of Huston's most painfully memorable. The story is filled out by surrounding detail that never leaves the memory: boxers and trainers who whisper of injuries that could put them out of business for good; a lone fighter who takes a bus into town, bides time in a crummy motel room, takes a beating in the ring, then leaves on the next bus with a few dollars in his pocket. This film helped re-establish Huston's reputation as a major filmmaker. It was followed by the likes of The Man Who Would Be King. --Tom Keogh

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