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.
Overview
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
A terse, sharp, downbeat but compassionate look at the underside of smalltown American life in the west.
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.
Marvellous, grimly downbeat study of desperate lives and the escape routes people construct for themselves, stunningly shot by Conrad Hall.
The movie's edges are filled with small, perfect character performances.
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