Rotten
A moderately entertaining film, but no screen magic from Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. The pic is overlong, talky and diffused.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Electric Horseman
He's a washed-up loser. But sometimes losers can be heroes...
1979 · 2h 2m · PG
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Directed by
Sydney Pollack
Overview
A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.
Director and cast
- Sydney Pollack Director
- Robert Redford as Norman 'Sonny' Steele
- Jane Fonda as Alice 'Hallie' Martin
- Valerie Perrine as Charlotta Steele
- Willie Nelson as Wendell Hickson
- John Saxon as Hunt Sears
- Wilford Brimley as Farmer
- Allan Arbus as Danny
- Nicolas Coster as Fitzgerald
- Brendan Kelly as Grocer
- Basil Hoffman as Toland
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
64%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Beguilingly sharp at first, but the later stages, with Fonda's toughie reporter tagging along for a story but going all mushy inside, wallow in sentimentality about integrity, ecology and all that jazz.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
At this point, I think it's reasonably safe to say that The Electric Horseman is the best American romantic comedy of 1979.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
The Electric Horseman is the kind of movie they used to make.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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