Stay Hungry Movie

Stay Hungry
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Run Time: 102 min
MPAA Rating: R
Released: 1976
Directors: Bob Rafelson
Genre/Type: Comedy Drama
Sports Drama
Romantic Comedy
Americana
Producers: Bob Rafelson
Harold Schneider
Plot Synopsis by Mark Deming
In this offbeat comedy, Jeff Bridges plays Craig Blake, a rich kid who works with a group of hard-living Southern real-estate men led by Jabo (Joe Spinell), who are buying up a business district in Birmingham, Alabama in order to clear the space and put in a new project. Craig is supposed to work out a deal to buy the Olympic Spa, a gym popular with local weight-lifters, but after spending some time at the club, Craig finds himself fascinated with the people there, especially Joe Santo (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a world-class body builder from Austria who sometimes works out in a superhero costume and likes to play bluegrass fiddle to relax. Craig also makes the acquaintance of Mary Tate Farnsworth (Sally Field), a feisty gal who hangs out with Joe. Mary Tate finds Craig attractive, but she isn't sure he's being all that sincere, and she wonders why a wealthy real estate man is hanging out with a bunch of low-rent gym rats. Stay Hungry was a critical comeback for director Bob Rafelson and kick-started the careers of both Sally Field and Arnold Schwarzenegger in their first major film roles (unless you count Arnold's misbegotten appearance as "Arnold Strong" in Hercules In New York).

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Jeff Bridges Craig Blake Dec 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, CA
Sally Field Mary Tate Farnsworth Nov 6, 1946 in Pasadena, CA
Arnold Schwarzenegger Joe Santo Jul 30, 1947 in Graz, Austria
R.G. Armstrong Thor Erickson Apr 7, 1917 in Birmingham, AL
Robert Englund Franklin Jun 6, 1949 in Glendale, CA
Helena Kallianiotes Anita
Roger E. Mosley Newton
Woodrow Parfrey Craig's Uncle Oct 5, 1922 in New York City, NY
Scatman Crothers Butler May 23, 1910 in Terre Haute, IN
Kathleen Miller Dorothy Stephens
Fannie Flagg Amy Walterson Sep 21, 1944 in Birmingham, AL
Joanna Cassidy Joe Mason Aug 2, 1945 in Camden, NJ
Richard Gilliland Hal Foss Jan 23, 1950 in Fort Worth, TX
Ed Begley, Jr. Lester Sep 16, 1949 in Los Angeles, CA
John Carson Halsey Mar 6, 1952 in California
Dennis Fimple Bubba
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Review by Michael Betzold
Stay Hungry is a small, quirky film about a rich Alabama heir whose real estate dealings cause him to hook up with a group of bodybuilders. Played by Jeff Bridges, the protagonist falls in love with their lifestyle and with a working-class woman played by Sally Field, three years before her surprising turn as the working-class union organizer in Norma Rae. Writer-director Bob Rafelson's attraction to this kind of offbeat character study was recognizable in such previous films as Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens. Stay Hungry features Arnold Schwarzenegger in his first, thickly accented speaking role, as an ace bodybuilder who likes to play bluegrass fiddle. In her first major film role, Field tried to alter her saccharine image, based on her part in TV's The Flying Nun, by doing a nude scene. A stew of observations about class, romance, and physical appearance, Stay Hungry is based on a novel by Charles Gaines and is definitely a matter of taste.
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