Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC, 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 01:42:16 | 4.32 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Comedy, Drama
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC, 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 01:42:16 | 4.32 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Comedy, Drama
In this offbeat comedy, Jeff Bridges plays Craig Blake, a rich kid who works with a group of hard-living Southern real-estate men led by Jabo (Joe Spinell), who are buying up a business district in Birmingham, Alabama in order to clear the space and put in a new project. Craig is supposed to work out a deal to buy the Olympic Spa, a gym popular with local weight-lifters, but after spending some time at the club, Craig finds himself fascinated with the people there, especially Joe Santo (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a world-class body builder from Austria who sometimes works out in a superhero costume and likes to play bluegrass fiddle to relax. Craig also makes the acquaintance of Mary Tate Farnsworth (Sally Field), a feisty gal who hangs out with Joe. Mary Tate finds Craig attractive, but she isn't sure he's being all that sincere, and she wonders why a wealthy real estate man is hanging out with a bunch of low-rent gym rats. Stay Hungry was a critical comeback for director Bob Rafelson and kick-started the careers of both Sally Field and Arnold Schwarzenegger in their first major film roles (unless you count Arnold's misbegotten appearance as "Arnold Strong" in Hercules In New York).Synopsis by Mark Deming, Allmovie.com
The girl is played by Sally Field, and she's a simple country type who doesn't exactly fit in with Bridges's genteel cousins; she attends a family party dressed in something that looks mail-ordered from Frederick's of Hollywood. Bridges begins to get letters from his Uncle Albert, who points out that this newfound interest in muscle-building and girls without any breeding is going to qualify him as the family's first black sheep since the cousin who moved to Puerto Rico and opened a goat farm. Meanwhile, the would-be real estate investors turn out to be mob types with a penchant for sending guys around to wreck the air conditioning.
The movie doesn't concern itself very much with plot; like Rafelson's "Five Easy Pieces" and the underrated "The King of Marvin Gardens," it introduces us to sharply defined, rather odd characters and then lets them mix it up. The movie is episodic, and some of the episodes are brilliant. Among the best is a scene in which the aged family retainer (Scatman Crothers) announces his resignation and his intention of taking a suit of armor with him, another in which several dozen body-builders race through the startled streets of Birmingham, a harrowing fight scene in a gym in which people throw weights at each other, and a tables-turned situation in which a hooker is forcibly given a massage.
Schwarzenegger, in his first dramatic role, turns in an interesting performance as Bridges's newfound buddy. He works out incessantly, speaks in an Austrian accent, and then turns out to be the lead fiddler in a bluegrass band (people in Rafelson movies are always revealing unsuspected musical abilities).
One of the best things about Stay Hungry is that we have almost no idea where it's going; it's as free-form as Nashville and Rafelson is cheerfully willing to pause here and there for set pieces like the woman's karate class and the eventual Mr. Universe competition (in which the muscled competitors, back-lit, rise slowly onto a revolving stage in a moment reminiscent of the sunrise in "2001: A Space Odyssey"). When the movie's over, we're still not sure why it was made (maybe it's a subtle comment on Southern class structure very subtle), but we've had fun and so, it appears, has Rafelson.Review by Roger Ebert, Allmovie.com
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Director: Bob Rafelson
Writers: Charles Gaines (screenplay), Bob Rafelson (screenplay)
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scatman Crothers, Robert Englund, Ed Begley, Jr. and other
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Director Bob Rafelson, Jeff Bridges and Sally Field
- Video Introduction by by Director Bob Rafelson
- Theatrical Trailer
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