Synopsis
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
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Cast
- Stacy KeachTully
- Jeff BridgesErnie
- Susan TyrrellOma
- Candy ClarkFaye
- Nicholas ColasantoRuben
- Art AragonBabe
- Curtis CokesEarl
- Sixto RodriguezLucero
- Billy WalkerWes
- Wayne MahanBuford
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
Fat City is both an extraordinarily realistic look at the bottom rungs of the fight game and a moving exploration of the human condition. - 91
The A.V. Club
A different director might have fashioned the same basic material into something grandiose, but Huston errs on the side of understatement. Shot largely on location, this raw, pessimistic portrait of people struggling to keep from slipping all the way down reinvigorated the veteran director’s reputation, and stands as one of his best and most accomplished films. - 90
The New York Times
Huston's affection for life's eccentrics, as well as its rejects and misfits, is Legendary—so much so that it has sometimes seemed as if he had cast his films as if running a mission. In Fat City he has kept himself under control. The result is one of the three or four most beautifully acted films seen so far this year. - 90
The New York Times
A knockout scene by that grand old battler, John Huston. - 90
Time Out
Marvellous, grimly downbeat study of desperate lives and the escape routes people construct for themselves, stunningly shot by Conrad Hall. - 80
Variety
Huston catches the feel of the community with a lean, no-nonsense economy, a hard-boiled but humanly alert feeling which raises the tale from a purely naturalistic lowlife depiction of the characters to make a statement on the life style of the drifters and those who accept a moderate place in the smalltown hierarchy. - 80
Village Voice
The movie’s bleak, but it’s funnier than most comedies, and it suggests that life’s toughness doesn’t preclude joyfulness.
