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Fat City is a 1972 American sports drama film directed and produced by John Huston, and adapted by Leonard Gardner from his 1969 novel of the same title. It stars Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, and Candy Clark in her film debut.
Fat City: Directed by John Huston. With Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark. Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take different directions.
One of the unexpected films surrounding a late-career resurgence for acclaimed director John Huston, Fat City gives off a simple potency thanks to its ability to depict human weakness and...
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Directed by John Huston. With Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges and Susan Tyrrell.Fat City Blu-ray : https://amzn.to/3uIlaLpFat City DVD : https://amzn.to/4beXCNrAKA...
5 min read. Two men, barely 10 years apart in age, one with a lifetime of emptiness ahead of him, one with an empty lifetime already behind. This is what John Huston has to work with in “Fat City” and he treats it with a level, unsentimental honesty and makes it into one of his best films.
Stacy Keach. Tully. Susan Tyrrell. Oma. Fat City portrays the intersecting lives of two professional boxers in Stockton, California. As one experiences career resurgence and the other a downturn, their stories explore themes of ambition and personal struggle. Directed by John Huston, the film features Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges in leading roles.
Fat City is, after The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, his most harrowing vision of losers caught in a cycle bigger than they can fathom. Many Huston characters at least get a taste of the big time, but neither Keach's washed-up, scarred fighter, his face a wad of putty from years of abuse, nor Bridge's untrained, sloppy and disastrous fighter ...
