Fat City
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Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take different directions.
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- Oct 28, 2020
Just an astoundingly beautiful and textured film, with Stacy Keach as a resident of palookaville who takes a young boxer (Jeff Bridges) under his wing, which threatens to condemn him to the same sad trajectory in life. Every frame of this film is so lived-in and the…
Scott TobiasJun 23, 2020“Did I get knocked out?” “No, you won!” A story about dying, prideful masculinity from the master of the form. This is a good movie for rappelling down a shame spiral or committing to not let anyone speak for you. It’s an even better look at the idea of labor and cost and…
Sean FennesseyAug 12, 2021All the glitz and glamour of amateur boxing and beautiful Stockton, California come alive in this gem from John Huston! One of the most quietly devastating last scenes of any movie I've seen! The promise of youth and talent get further from us all with every second of…
Will Menaker - Dec 6, 2013
What a bleak yet accurate portrayal of what it is to be stuck this is. Everyone is trapped somehow, and their big dreams aren't doing them any favors. This is a sports film; it's supposed to be inspirational. Instead, it's about the way a man can be ripped apart by his…
Sally Jane BlackJan 25, 2024Life will keep hitting you up and maybe sometimes you manage to hit a couple of punches back in your way to the floor. The entire sequence with the older fighter is the most Hustonian thing, Huston ever made, even more so the end when the camera stays around after everyone…
Filipe FurtadoAug 11, 2022You can count on me.Billy Tully survives on lies. Lies to the people around him and, most importantly, lies to himself. Lies about his potential as a fighter. Lies about his losses. Lies about his marriage. Lies upon lies upon lies, all of them required to build the…
sakana1 - Oct 4, 2021
"Before you can get rolling, your life makes a beeline for the drain." 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…
Richard ChandlerJun 20, 2024One of the most shocking things in any film ever is when you find out the Stacy Keach character is supposed to be 29
brendan o'hareFeb 22, 2020Fat City is one of a limited quantity of boxing movies which spends its time concentrating on the type of fighter who does not achieve success, and fundamentally never will. It's based on the 1969 novel by Leonard Gardner, who also penned the script, and it is a tale of…
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John Huston's 1972 restatement of his theme of perpetual loss is intelligently understated, though the recessive camera compositions put an unnecessary distance between the viewer and the characters.
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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.
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Huston's affection for life's eccentrics, as well as its rejects and misfits, is Legendary—so much so that it has sometimes seemed as if he had cast his films as if running a mission. In Fat City he has kept himself under control. The result is one of the three or four most beautifully acted films seen so far this year.
Vincent Canby
The New York Times
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