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Ivan Passer,
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: MGM
: Drama, Crime, Neo Noir, Vietnam War
: 109 min.
: English, Spanish, French
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After emigrating to the United States in 1969, Czech-born director Ivan Passer finally broke through to American audiences with his fourth film, a unique blend of mystery and social commentary. Cutter's Way is set in Santa Barbara, CA, a community of wealth and power. Its main characters, however, are among the town's have-nots: Richard Bone Jeff Bridges, a beach-boy gigolo starting to go to seed; Bone's best friend Alex Cutter (John Heard), a Vietnam veteran maimed in body and spirit; and Mo (Lisa Eichorn), Cutter's alcoholic wife. When Cutter spots one of the community's most prominent citizens in the act of covering up a murder, Bone insists that the police would never take their word over that of a man of wealth and prestige. Cutter seizes the opportunity to blackmail the killer, as a means of striking back at a system he thinks sent him off to an unjust war and ruined his life. The film was fortunate to fall into the hands of United Artists Classics, a new division of the company crippled by the financial disaster of Heaven's Gate. UA Classics adroitly marketed Cutter's Way, riding a wave of rave reviews and good word-of-mouth among more discriminating filmgoers to modest box-office success. ~ Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide
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by underdog
September 25, 2002 - 3:50 PM PDT
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6 out of 7 members found this review helpful
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| Quintessential end of an era/decade film by Ivan Passer captures with an eerie eye the moody ambience of (my hometown, so I know whereof I speak) Santa Barbara CA. The cinematography is excellent, as are the performances; John Heard's never been better, here playing a bitter, paranoid (but ultimately prescient) Vietnam vet. Bridges is excellent as always. And the film has a surprising amount of mythic quality to it. An underrated classic. |
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