Cutter's Way
"Devastating, suspenseful [and] captivating!" -Los Angeles Times
One of the most original, unpredictable buddy movies in cinematic history, this "hauntingly powerful, exhilarating thriller" (New York Magazine) stars four-time Oscar® nominee Jeff Bridges and John Heard (The Pelican Brief) as two friends locked in a pulse-pounding battle for their lives.
Suspected of murdering a teenage girl, Richard Bone (Bridges), a laidback Santa Barbara boat salesman and gigolo, turns to his best friend Alex Cutter (Heard), a disables Vietnam veteran, for help in finding the real killer. But Bone gets more than he bargained for when Cutter pushes the envelope and, instead of contacting the police, tries to blackmail their suspect...and their suspect, instead of giving in, violently turns the tales on them! Trapped between the killer and the cops, Cutter and Bone begin a cunning game of cat-and-mouse that ignites into a full-blown war -- a "nightmare vision that leaves you bewildered, yet moved" (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner)!
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Cutter's Way - Coco
America’s prolonged convalescence in the wake of the Vietnam/Indochina imbroglio has been tackled by a myriad of talentless, sleazy hack-artists with iceberg egos to sink the titanic. Substance-abusing-wife-beating-child-rapist Oliver Stone, the bloated talk-show-couch indenting dandy, managed to bleed his own Vietnam experiences for his two most awful (and most Oscar nominated?) films. So instead of watching Platoon or Born on the Fourth of July (worst title of all time) this fourth of July, and mistaking undercooked ham for emotion, dig into Cutter’s Way, the great post-Vietnam America-from-the-ground-up-to-the heavens binge-and-purge catharsis blast. Vietnam aside, Cutter’s Way is the most important political film, with stars in it, about the aftermath of ’68, the disease and dissention, the paranoid conspiracy science, and the panic of a grudge (that of the people) which will never find a target large enough to spend itself on (that of ‘the man’). John Heard’s performance in the film, described by critic David Kerr at the time as one of the most irritating of all time, is actually a strong contender for the best of the 80s. His Cutter is not exactly the main character (that would probably be Bridges’ big surf gigolo Bone, Cutters’ best/worst friend) but like his name suggests, he cuts through everyone else, perforating the most intimate depths. The title is what the film is all about: a method of living, namely Cutter’s. This method is one of outright and constant confrontation with the lies we all know we are telling but keep on telling because nobody comes into our houses, slaps the coffee cup out of our hands, and forces us to stop. That is the moral here: enter every house, overturn every table (like the Christ of St. Peter instead of the one from Oliver Stone), and lay claim to everything stolen from you every time power has breathed. Then bite it, over and out. Die and shut your mouth. Oye!
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Cutter's Way - Coco
America’s prolonged convalescence in the wake of the Vietnam/Indochina imbroglio has been tackled by a myriad of talentless, sleazy hack-artists with iceberg egos to sink the titanic. Substance-abusing-wife-beating-child-rapist Oliver Stone, the bloated talk-show-couch ...