Review of Fat City (1972) by Jonathan H — 24 Jun 2012

Fairly disappointing boxing movie in which two losers (Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges) who strive to succeed at the sport for which they love. Keach's character is an alcoholic who is in the rough love affair with this unpleasantly nasty woman (Susan Tyrrell), but not saying he's not also nasty would be leaving out a chunk of information to describe his character.

Bridges' character is also in a relationship with a woman (Candy Clark), but is heavily impacted by his inadequate fighting methods in the sport. Generally sincere, but mainly forgettable and indulges too heavily in feeling pity for the characters, despite who the director is (John Huston, which is too bad because I have enjoyed many of his others movies).

"Fat City," by the way, refers to a region of the city for which they live in coined by the African-Americans.