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The Hunter. Action. 93 minutes ‧ 1980. Roger Ebert. August 4, 1980. 3 min read. Here’s poetic justice at work. After making “ The Towering Inferno ” in 1974, superstar Steve McQueen takes himself off the market. He rejects several highly publicized multimillion dollar deals.
THE HUNTER is a contemporary thriller notable for being Steve McQueen's last role before his untimely death from cancer in 1980. The surprise is that he barely seems to have aged since his days in THE BLOB and he delivers a stylish, cool, and likable performance as always throughout his career.
May 28, 2020 · In The Hunter, legendary car nut, Steven McQueen, plays Papa Thorson, a bounty hunter who is a very bad driver. That's it. That's the joke. Papa Thorson was a real-life bounty hunter, the Dog the Bounty Hunter of his day, and The Hunter was based on his own autobiography. Maybe that explains why the…
On a hot summer night in 1985 Greenwich Village, a young man, new to the city, leaves a gay bar with a flamboyant performance artist, but his animated story of Antigone is soon rudely interrupted in this period tribute to the wild gay scene of the mid-1980s.
- Sam Mcconnell
- United States
- Tandem Pictures
- Tandem Pictures
THE HUNTER is more dead than alive. Supposedly based on a real bounty hunter's life, this episodic film never focuses on anything long enough for the audience to care about it, and characters race in and out of the story without introduction or development.
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- Buzz Kulik
- PG
- Steve Mcqueen
Directed by Buzz Kulik. He’s not as fast as he used to be… That’s what makes him human. He’s a bounty hunter… And that’s what makes him dangerous. During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph “Papa” Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals.
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Supposedly based on a real bounty hunter's life, this episodic film never focuses on anything long enough for the audience to care about it, and characters race in and out of the story without introduction or development. Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics.
