Fat City
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Movie Reviews of Fat City
Movie Review: Susan Tyrell Deserved Nomination
Summary: 3 Stars
This is one of the better boxing movies. Stacy Keach can be an annoying actor, but he's right in this part. An aging fighter with a booze habit sloshes through Barrio LA and tries to make a comeback. Along the way he meets a young fighter, Jeff Bridges, with a pregnant girlfriend. I wouldn't say as other critics, that Bridges is being mentored by Keach. Keach is too booze soggy to help anybody, but he does introduce the kid to his old manager, Nicholas Colasanto, a gentle, but savvy ex-pug with a Latino wife. Colasanto is the emblematic manager with a heart of gold in a brutal sport.
Susan Tyrell got an Academy Award nomination for her part as the flotsam barfly. I can't place her accent. I wonder if juiced up Californians sound like her. Anyhow, she out acts everyone and I am disappointed I can find few credits for her in NetFlix. What a shame!
Fat City is slow moving with seemingly improvised acting. There's a real gritty reality to this 1971 LA world I knew nothing about. Still, it hangs together all right and I do recommend.