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Cutter's Way

  • 19811981
  • RR
  • 1h 49m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
6.9K
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Jeff Bridges, John Heard, and Lisa Eichhorn in Cutter's Way (1981)
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Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
6.9K
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    • Ivan Passer
    • Newton Thornburg(based on the novel "Cutter and Bone" by)
    • Jeffrey Alan Fiskin(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Jeff Bridges
    • John Heard
    • Lisa Eichhorn
    • Ivan Passer
    • Newton Thornburg(based on the novel "Cutter and Bone" by)
    • Jeffrey Alan Fiskin(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Jeff Bridges
    • John Heard
    • Lisa Eichhorn
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 73User reviews
    • 65Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
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    Official Trailer
    Trailer 2:24
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    Sneak Previews Season 3 Episode 33
    Video 28:58
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    Photos97

    Jeff Bridges in Cutter's Way (1981)
    Lisa Eichhorn in Cutter's Way (1981)
    Jeff Bridges and Lisa Eichhorn in Cutter's Way (1981)
    John Heard in Cutter's Way (1981)
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    Jeff Bridges and John Heard in Cutter's Way (1981)
    Jeff Bridges and John Heard in Cutter's Way (1981)
    Jeff Bridges, John Heard, and Lisa Eichhorn in Cutter's Way (1981)
    Jeff Bridges and Nina van Pallandt in Cutter's Way (1981)
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    Jeff Bridges
    Jeff Bridges
    • Richard Bone
    John Heard
    John Heard
    • Alex Cutter
    Lisa Eichhorn
    Lisa Eichhorn
    • Maureen Cutter, 'Mo'
    Ann Dusenberry
    Ann Dusenberry
    • Valerie Duran
    Stephen Elliott
    Stephen Elliott
    • J.J. Cord
    Arthur Rosenberg
    Arthur Rosenberg
    • George Swanson
    Nina van Pallandt
    Nina van Pallandt
    • Woman in the Hotel
    Patricia Donahue
    Patricia Donahue
    • Mrs. Cord
    Geraldine Baron
    • Susie Swanson
    Katherine Pass
    • Toyota Woman
    Francis X. McCarthy
    Francis X. McCarthy
    • Toyota Man
    • (as Frank McCarthy)
    George Planco
    • Toyota Cop
    Jay Fletcher
    Jay Fletcher
    • Cord Security Guard
    George Dickerson
    • Mortician
    Jack Murdock
    Jack Murdock
    • Concession Owner
    Essex Smith
    • Black #1
    Rod Gist
    • Black #2
    Leonard Lightfoot
    • Black #3
      • Ivan Passer
      • Newton Thornburg(based on the novel "Cutter and Bone" by)
      • Jeffrey Alan Fiskin(screenplay by)
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    • Trivia
      Before production started on this film, Ivan Passer and producer Paul R. Gurian went to Jeff Bridges' house to ask him if he would agree to play Bone. After both entered Bridges' property, the actor's dog, a big German shepherd, attacked Gurian, biting him on the jaw. Gurian nearly died. Bridges later confessed that, after this incident, he had no choice but to accept the role in order to avoid being sued for several million dollars.
    • Goofs
      Valerie's disappearance is neither explained nor noted by the main characters.
    • Quotes

      Alex Cutter: I don't drink. You know, the routine grind drives me to drink. Tragedy, I take straight.

    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Raiders of the Lost Ark, City of Women, I Sent a Letter To My Love, Cutter's Way (1981)
    • Soundtracks
      We're Old Enough to Know
      Music by Jack Nitzsche

      Lyrics by John Byrum

      Vocals by Jack Nitzsche

    User reviews73

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    Radically better than anyone could expect....
    Ostensibly this film appears to be a buddy movie from the 1980s, but it is actually something much more interesting. Employing standard Hollywood clinches with its thriller/ investigation narrative and many of of its "stock" characters and situations, the little guys - Heard and Bridges - take on Mr Fat Cat Capitalist who rules the peacetime world like an untouchable and corrupt monarch. The film, though well-executed and enjoyable, at first seems no more than a well-scripted, well-acted (Heard is particularly good as the embittered, crippled Vietnam Veteran) genre piece. However, what emerges by the end is something far more exciting and radical - an indictment of US politics and power relations, and a genuinely bleak reflection on the impossibility and rarity of real justice both at the micro and macro levels.

    Vietnam and its true significance is used to great effect in the film, as is the interplay between the two buddies. Whilst Bridges won't accept that he has witnessed the ultimate, bleak truth of US power relations until the film's abrupt, punchy end, Heard knows the truth intuitively and automatically because he understands and hates the world from the the start. He has given up on notions such as forgiveness and even the need for legal process, and seeks only revenge on the rich and the powerful. He understands, correctly, that is the only way a kind of momentary justice is possible, since everything else is either controlled by the elites or made to protect them. Without wishing to spoil the film's brilliant final moments, it is here that the whodunnit story is stripped away and the guilt they have been seeking to prove, as Richard Bone realises, becomes entirely political or metaphysical, and the the crime itself becomes irrelevant.
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    • Release date
      • February 10, 1982 (France)
      • United States
      • English
      • Spanish
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    • Filming locations
      • 800 Alvarado Place, Santa Barbara, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Gurian Entertainment
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    Technical specs

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    • 1 hour 49 minutes
      • Color
      • Mono

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