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Fat City
Directed by
John Huston
PG
1972
1h 37m
Drama
,
Sport
7.2
100%
84%
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The film tells the story of two boxers and their problems. One of them is on the decline of his career while the other one just begins his ascent in this sport.
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Cast of Fat City
Stacy Keach
Tully
Jeff Bridges
Ernie
Susan Tyrrell
Oma
Candy Clark
Faye
Nicholas Colasanto
Ruben
Art Aragon
Babe
Curtis Cokes
Earl
Sixto Rodriguez
Lucero
Billy Walker
Wes
Wayne Mahan
Buford
Ruben Navarro
Fuentes
Al Silvani
Referee at Tully-Lucero Fight (uncredited)
Álvaro López
Rosales (uncredited)
Carl D. Parker
Paymaster (uncredited)
Bill Riddle
Boxer (uncredited)
Fat City Ratings & Reviews
Rowan Krzysiak
February 13, 2025
New Hollywood's take on boxing offers up some great characters that for 90 mins or so create a community for you to be fascinated by. Susan Tyrrell is particularly excellent and Jeff Bridges is particularly young.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie's edges are filled with small, perfect character performances.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Mr. Gardner's screenplay, of course, is something quite special, full of the kind of dialogue that movies usually can't afford, that defines time, place, mood, and character while seemingly going nowhere.
Film and Felt
Gabe Leibowitz
Fat City is most notable for terrific performances all around, especially those of Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrell, and a baby-faced Jeff Bridges.
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Emanuel Levy
Grim and downbeat, John Huston's superlative drama about a bunch of losers in Stockton California is splendidly acted by Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, and particularly Susan Tyrrell in a well-deserved Oscar nominated turn.
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Cole Smithey
Boxing serves as an apt metaphor about fighting for survival under Capitalism with few resources or any real sense of hope.
New York Times
Walter Goodman
A knockout scene by that grand old battler, John Huston.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
The movie's bleak, but it's funnier than most comedies, and it suggests that life's toughness doesn't preclude joyfulness.
The New Republic
David Thomson
So you say to yourself, this Fat City is pretty damn realistic, even if you know in your heart that "realistic" and Hollywood should not be printed on the same page-otherwise paper ignites. Still, you're marveling at it.
Variety
Variety Staff
A terse, sharp, downbeat but compassionate look at the underside of smalltown American life in the west.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The movie is crafty work and very much a show. In one way or another, right down to the percussively abrupt open ending, it's all about being hammered.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
John Huston's 1972 restatement of his theme of perpetual loss is intelligently understated.
Crooked Marquee
Sean Burns
You have to get dinged around a bit by life before you can make a movie like 'Fat City', a film that dwells in disappointment without making a big deal about it.
Paste Magazine
Mitchell Beaupre
Fat City is about our need for companionship in the face of life's ongoing adversities.
Film Freak Central
Bill Chambers
An insightful, humanist masterwork.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Huston really gets the flavor of Stockton, CA, and with its run-down drinking establishments, sleazy gyms, and bad coffee joints.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
The downbeat sports drama is a marvelous understated character study of the marginalized leading desperate lives.
TV Guide
Both an extraordinarily realistic look at the bottom rungs of the fight game and a moving exploration of the human condition.
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