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Bookmark this pageStay Hungry (1976)
Director: Bob Rafelson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
After the sombre melancholy of Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens, Rafelson pursued his interest in social dropouts and marginal life-styles with this offbeat comedy drama. Bridges oozes carefree charm as a young Alabama heir caught up in a property speculation involving a gym, but instead investing his interest in Arnie and his muscle-building pals. His relationship with gutsy working gal Field helps fill out the picture, although the preponderance of loose narrative threads tends to leave one with an impression of individual scenes rather than any sense of coherent plot. The scene in which Bridges slips though a hole in the social hedge to join a bunch of fiddle players in a country hoedown epitomises the gentle, quirky feel of the film. Based on a Charles Gaines novel about the rootlessness of the so-called 'New South', it has its slack spells, but Rafelson's sure feel for the inexpressible subtleties of emotional relationships is evident throughout.Author: NF
Cast & crew
Director: Bob Rafelson
Producer: Harold Schneider, Bob Rafelson
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, RG Armstrong, Robert Englund, Helena Kallianiotes, Roger E Mosley, Woodrow Parfrey, Scatman Crothers full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 102 mins
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