Rotten
Underneath it all is a lurching and poorly defined film concept.
Variety Staff, Variety
Stay Hungry
If you've got an appetite for life…
1976 · 1h 42m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Bob Rafelson
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Stay Hungry
Overview
A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after spending time with weightlifter Joe Santo and gym worker Mary Tate Farnsworth, Craig wants out of the deal. The property negotiations turn ugly, causing a brawl at the gym and a spectacle at a big bodybuilding meet, as Craig learns that it's not easy to turn your back on fair-weather friends.
Director and cast
- Bob Rafelson Director
- Jeff Bridges as Craig Blake
- Sally Field as Mary Tate Farnsworth
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as Joe Santo
- R.G. Armstrong as Thor Erickson
- Robert Englund as Franklin
- Helena Kallianiotes as Anita
- Roger E. Mosley as Newton
- Woodrow Parfrey as Uncle Albert
- Scatman Crothers as William
- Franco Columbu as Franco Orsini
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It has its slack spells, but Rafelson's sure feel for the inexpressible subtleties of emotional relationships is evident throughout.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Rotten
It is the sort of movie whose vapidity is exposed as soon as the clutter is removed.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
It introduces us to sharply defined, rather odd characters and then lets them mix it up. The movie is episodic, and some of the episodes are brilliant.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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