Stay Hungry

In this offbeat comedy, Jeff Bridges plays Craig Blake, a rich kid who works with a group of hard-living Southern real-estate men led by Jabo (Joe Spinell), who are buying up a business district in Birmingham, Alabama in order to clear the space and put in a new project. Craig is supposed to work ...more

Stay Hungry is a small, quirky film about a rich Alabama heir whose real estate dealings cause him to hook up with a group of bodybuilders. Played by Jeff Bridges, the protagonist falls in love with their lifestyle and with a working-class woman played by Sally Field, three years before her surprising turn as the working-class union organizer in Norma Rae. Writer-director Bob Rafelson's attraction to this kind of offbeat character study was recognizable in such previous films as Five Easy ...more