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Fat City

1972, Movie, PG, 100 mins

FAT CITY
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Set in Stockton, Calif., against a backdrop of rundown bars, cheap apartments and half-empty second rate gyms, this grim story of hope and despair among life's losers from director John Huston is one of the great underrated American films of the '70s. Stacy Keach stars as a one-time boxing contender who, after nearly two years of alcoholism, contemplates a comeback — until he meets Jeff Bridges, a promising 19-year-old pugilist. Read the complete review for Fat City
Year: 1972
Rated PG

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Cast
Stacy Keach: Billy Tully
Jeff Bridges: Ernie Munger
Susan Tyrrell: Oma
Candy Clark: Faye
Nicholas Colasanto: Ruben
Art Aragon: Babe

 

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Broke-down fighter Billy (Stacy Keach) meets troubled Oma (Susan Tyrrell in her Academy...
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Ruben (Nicholas Colasanto) is full of wisdom as he delivers Ernie (Jeff Bridges) and the...
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Opening credits for John Huston's acclaimed Fat City, 1972 display an atmospheric Stockton,...
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Ex-pro Billy (Stacy Keach) and amateur Ernie (Jeff Bridges) size each other up with some...
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Stacy Keach Returns to ER for a Bloody Brawl

Stacy Keach has had a long and idiosyncratic career. How many actors have starred in both a John Huston masterpiece (Fat City) and Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? His TV résumé alone stretches from long-ago iconic Westerns like Sugarfoot and Cheyenne through The New Mike Hammer to Prison Break. Now Keach is adding to his credits with an arc on ER, a show known for gaining its guest sta read more

Stacy Keach Battles Flu, Prison Fugitives

What if an outbreak of an avian flu actually mutated into a virus transmittable from human to human? That is the very scary proposition explored in the ABC TV-movie Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (premiering tonight at 8 pm/ET). Among the brave hearts attempting to impede the pandemic are Stacy Keach as Collin Reed, Secretary of Health of Human Services. Here, the veteran actor reveals how Fatal Contact came together in such a timely manner, ponders the uncertain fate of his Prison Break warden, and serves up a choice read more

Stacy Keach Battles Flu, Prison Fugitives

What if an outbreak of an avian flu actually mutated into a virus transmittable from human to human? That is the very scary proposition explored in the ABC TV-movie Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (premiering Tuesday at 8 pm/ET). Among the brave hearts attempting to impede the pandemic are Stacy Keach as Collin Reed, Secretary of Health of Human Services. Here, the veteran actor reveals how Fatal Contact came together in such a timely manner, ponders the uncertain fate of his Prison Break warden, and serves up a choice read more

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