"Before you get rollin', your life makes a beeline for the drain."
From John Huston's Fat City(1972), with Stacy Keach as a boxer on the skids, Jeff Bridges as a boxer on the rise, and Nicholas Colasanto, the trainer. A film about the lonely, and their limited expectations. A great film. Here's the first five minutes.......
posted by phil at 12:47 PM
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6 Comments:
How did I miss this movie? It looks like a great one. Interesting that Marvin Hamlisch did the music. I'm adding it to my Netflix queue.
Hi, Willow.
You'll love it. No false heroics - for a boxing flic even. That's all I'll say. :)
Leonard Gardner wrote the book and also did the screenplay. Both excellent!
~p
Okay...I had to do a double take on your header...please tell me that it's not my imagination and that it is indeed moving! :)
Cool...I think.
Yes, it's the Vertigo Special. ;)
All aboard!
Heehee! Vertigo is right. I had to think for a minute.
It's cool...like wind blowing!
Very cool header Phil. And I too have not heard of this movie before, dagnabit!
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