Stay Hungry

Name: Stay Hungry
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: April 23, 1976
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Helena Kallianiotes, Jeff Bridges, Kathleen Miller, R.G. Armstrong

1976

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United Artists | Release Date: April 23, 1976 | R

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Helena Kallianiotes, Jeff Bridges, Kathleen Miller, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Englund, Roger E. Mosley, Sally Field, Scatman Crothers, Woodrow Parfrey

Summary: A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships a month ahead. The rich sunny-boy Craig Blake is brought in by the syndicate as a dummy to buy the gym. But then he starts to like the people and fallsA syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships a month ahead. The rich sunny-boy Craig Blake is brought in by the syndicate as a dummy to buy the gym. But then he starts to like the people and falls in love with Joe's friend Mary Tate.… Expand

Director: Bob Rafelson

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 102 min

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Nathan Rabin

A smiley-face ending feels like a lazy copout, but the end credits, which put faces to all the names in the uniformly fine cast, underline this shaggy sleeper's greatest strength: creating a slew of characters worth getting to know. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Filled with interesting characters and strong performances, Stay Hungry not only makes its point about class prejudice, but presents a detailed portrait of southern country club culture and the bodybuilding milieu that would be so deftly captured in Schwarzenegger's next film, the fine documentary Pumping Iron. Read full review

Roger Ebert

One of the best things about Stay Hungry is that we have almost no idea where it's going; it's as free-form as Nashville and Rafelson is cheerfully willing to pause here and there for set pieces. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Based on a Charles Gaines novel about the rootlessness of the so-called 'New South', it has its slack spells, but Rafelson's sure feel for the inexpressible subtleties of emotional relationships is evident throughout. Read full review

Jack Kroll

The screenplay, by Rafelson and Charles Gaines from the latter's novel, has all the ingredients of an American Gothic, and that's what you get. But the theme of the young dropout who opposes the system with ironic apathy until something (usually something violent) needles him to action is moldy around the edges, and by now Jeff Bridges seems to be playing that role in his sleep. [17 May 1976, p.111]

Staff (Not Credited)

Underneath it all is a lurching and poorly defined film concept. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Stay Hungry, the new film directed by Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens), isn't all bad. It just seems that way when it pretends to be more eccentric than it is and to have more on its mind than it actually does. Read full review

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