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“Star 80” is his most despairing film. After the Nazi decadence of “Cabaret,” after the drug abuse and self-destruction in “Lenny” and the death-obsessed hero of “All That Jazz,” here is a movie that begins with violent death and burrows deeper.
Star 80. When sleazy Paul Snider (Eric Roberts) stumbles upon pretty high school beauty Dorothy Stratten (Mariel Hemingway), he knows she is star material. Paul becomes her manager and husband ...
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STAR 80 is Bob Fosse's stunning, no holds barred account of the life and death of playmate Dorothy Stratten and her husband Paul Snider. It features a career making performance by Eric Roberts. As Snider, Roberts is electrifying.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2002. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. The definitive site for Reviews,...
Jan 1, 1983 · Reviews. Dec 31, 1982 11:00pm PT. Star 80. Bob Fosse takes another look at the underside of the success trip in Star 80, an engrossing, unsentimental and unavoidably depressing account of the short...
A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband, a small-time hustler and pimp, becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten. Biography. Drama. Directed By: Bob Fosse. Written By: Teresa Carpenter, Bob Fosse.
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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com. 100. Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert. I think this is an important movie. Devastating, violent, hopeless, and important, because it holds a mirror up to a part of the world we live in, and helps us see it more clearly.