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Richard Rush's 1979 film bucked the studio system
with its multilayered story telling and interesting
themes. It also provided Peter O'Toole with one
of his best screen roles. In spite of being nominated
for three Academy Awards — Best Actor, Best Director
and Best Adapted Screenplay — studio politics
buried the film and it has languished in cult
semi-obscurity ever since. Vietnam veteran Cameron
(Steve Railsbeck) is on the run from the police
when he stumbles onto the set of a war movie.
A megalomaniac Eli Cross (Peter O’Toole) is directing
the movie. Taking the place of a dead man, Cameron
becomes a stunt man and starts to fall in love
with the leading lady played by Barbara Hershey.
Is Eli trying to capture the stunt man’s death
on film? In addition, what happens to a paranoid
man when illusion and reality change places?
Thanks to Anchor Bay Entertainment for permission
to screen The Stunt Man and for the kind provision
of the DVD.
Critics
“A virtuoso piece of film making” The
New Yorker
Awards
National
Society of Film Critics of America Award 1981
Programme
Notes
The
notes for this film are available here.
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Director
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Richard
Rush
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Writers
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Paul
Brodeur Lawrence B. Marcus
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Cast
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Peter
O’Toole
Steve Railsbeck
Barbara Hershey
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Cert |
15 |
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Length |
2
hours 11 mins |
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Country |
USA
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