The Electric Horseman
by Sydney Pollack
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Actor: Jane Fonda, John Saxon, Robert Redford, Valerie Perrine, Willie NelsonDirector: Sydney Pollack
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Electric Horseman
Movie Review: Where's the chrome?
Summary: 4 Stars
The Electric Horseman is Sonny Steele (Robert Redford), a rodeo cowboy who now works for Ampco Industries pitching breakfast cereal and making promotional appearances at corporate events. Wearing a suit festooned with electric lights he is supposed to make a Las Vegas appearance with a $12 Million dollar race horse, Rising Star, for the big corporate merger roll out event.
He sees that the horse is being mistreated, not to mention himself, so he takes off with Rising Star to set her free. Reporter Hallie Martin (Jane Fonda) tracks him down in pursuit of the story and ends up as an accomplice to the crazy scheme. The corporate honchos are in pursuit, trying to squelch any bad publicity, or as their breakfast cereal sales rise, at least spin the story to their advantage.
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford made three movies together, and Jane later admitted that she was secretly in love with Bob though she was married at the time, and never even told him of her feelings. She just really liked going to work. There is evidence of chemistry between the two, and it's fun to watch. They seem headed for disaster, but there is great scenery along the way, and who knows, they just might pull it off.
The film, directed by Sydney Pollack, features the film debut of Willie Nelson, whose music is also featured. He didn't really get to do much as Wendall Hickson, Sonny Steele's manager, but he still managed to make quite an impression, and even Pollack admitted that he came up with the best line in the whole movie, a total ad lib.
Valerie Perrine played Charlotta Steele, Sonny's wife who still loves him but just wants him to sign the divorce papers.
Redford bought Rising Star after the film was finished, and the horse lived out it's life on his Utah ranch.
The Horse Whisperer (1998) .... Redford played Tom Booker, The Horse Whisperer, and also directed.
Out of Africa (1985) .... Denys Finch Hatton was played by Redford, and this film won Sydney Pollack 2 Oscars for Best Film and Director.
Comes a Horseman (1978) .... Fonda played Ella Connors.
The Way We Were (Special Edition) (1973) .... Hubbell Gardner and Katie Morosky were Redford and Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for Best Actress, and the movie won 2 Oscars for song and score for Marvin Hamlisch, with lyrics by Marilyn and Alan Bergman. In a scene in Boys On the Side, the characters portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker watch it in a motel while driving cross country. The Way We Were was directed by Sydney Pollack.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) .... Jane Fonda played Gloria Beatty in this tale of a depression era dance endurance test that was directed by Sydney Pollack.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition) (1969) .... Redford was The Sundance Kid and Paul Newman was Butch.
Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy (1968) .... Fonda was fabulous as Barbarella, directed by her then husband Roger Vadim in this space spoof that also provided the name for the band, Duran Duran.
Barefoot in the Park (1967) .... Redford and Fonda were Paul & Corie Bratter in this Neil Simon comedy.
The Chase (1966) .... Charlie 'Bubber' & Anna Reeves were played by Bob & Jane; and Brando, Angie Dickinson, and Robert Duvall were also along for The Chase.
This Property Is Condemned (1966) .... Robert Redford was Owen Legate, and the film was directed by Sydney Pollack, and stars Natalie Wood.
Ampco Industries PR Man: Grace, why don't you stand in front of that poster with Sonny, and Steve can take your picture to bring home.
Sonny Steele: Oh, no, why don't you just take a picture of Grace in front of that picture of me with that box with the picture of me on the box holding the picture of me with the picture of me? Then you've got Grace, and you've got a whole bunch of pictures of me.
Summary of The Electric Horseman
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 MillerComedy DVD Video
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