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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.
- (10K)
- Drama, Sport
- John Huston
- 1972-07-26
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 demons ...
- (27)
- John Huston
- PG
- Stacy Keach
Fat City was Jeff Bridges' follow-up film after his breakthrough in The Last Picture Show. He's already intensely likeable and self-assured as a decent, if not-too-bright young athlete. Ernie barely listens to Faye's hints about marriage; he's only capable of concentrating on one topic at a time.
The stories of two men in working class Stockton, CA, they at either end of a career or potential career in boxing, are told, the two who meet by chance in working out at the same time at the local Y.
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An unlikely success amid a string of flops, Fat City is director John Huston's commiserative paean to washouts everywhere, adapted by Leonard Gardner from his own 1969 novel of same name. Shot on location in seedy Stockton, California, the cyclical scenario follows has-been prizefighter turned boozehound Billy Tully (Stacy Keach), whose ...
