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Fat City is a 1972 American sports drama film directed and produced by John Huston, and adapted by Leonard Gardner from his 1969 novel of the same title. It stars Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, and Candy Clark in her film debut.
Jul 26, 1972 · Fat City: Directed by John Huston. With Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark. Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take different directions.
Fat City (1972) 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.
Washed-up boxer Tully (Stacy Keach) is inspired to restart his career after seeing potential in a teenager, Ernie (Jeff Bridges), whom he spars with at a gym. While Tully battles his past...
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Fat City stars Stacy Keach as Billy Tully, an alcoholic boxer who's desperately trying for a small-time comeback in the sleepy-bordering-on-depressing town of Stockton, California. Tully's sidekick is Ernie Munger (Jeff Bridges), a naïve younger man who, quite unwisely, is also pursuing a career in the ring (his first, very brief bout, is a ...
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FAT CITY is a powerful and gripping story about personal wins and losses in the raw, rugged world of mateur boxing. Directed by legendary, Oscar®-winning filmmaker John Huston...
