Scarecrow

Name: Scarecrow
Genre: Drama
Released: April 11, 1973
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Al Pacino, Gene Hackman

1973

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Warner Bros | Release Date: April 11, 1973 | R

Starring: Al Pacino, Gene Hackman

Summary: Max, an ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling and Lion, a homeless ex-sailor, partner up and head east together.

Director: Jerry Schatzberg

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 112 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

This is a jewel of American cinema. Read full review

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Budd Wilkins

Scarecrow embraces sprawl of both the narrative and geographical variety with freewheeling abandon. Read full review

Time Out London Dave Calhoun

Scarecrow’ feels like an existential fairytale squarely rooted in the reality of America’s fraying backroads and small towns. It’s all a little rambling and anarchic, but later scenes in a jail have real bite. And when the sadness behind Lion’s smile is revealed, it’s also genuinely moving. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Hollywood movies have rarely spoken such tough and tender truths. Read full review

Roger Ebert

it is a well-acted movie and for long stretches we're hoping it will work. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

A flawed, fascinating testament to a time of discovery in Hollywood: of how stories could be told onscreen, of what great actors might find within themselves, of just what in the hell this country had become in the late-'60s crackup. Read full review

Staff [Not Credited]

Scarecrow is a periodically interesting but ultimately unsatisfying character study of two modern drifters. Read full review

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