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Submit Your ReviewAdapted from Paul Brodeur's novel, Richard Rush's story of a Machiavellian movie director and his accidental employee takes a darkly comic look at movie reality vs. "real" reality. Running from the law, Vietnam vet Cameron (Steve Railsback) stumbles on a movie shoot just in time to interfere with a ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1980 | Running Time: 135 minutes
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Vibrating with energy, the incessantly entertaining The Stunt Man is puzzle-master's delight. The clever script and ambiguous direction toy with the audience, almost in the same way that Peter O'Toole's directorial maestro (who anticipates The Truman Show's Christof by nearly two decades) plays with Steve Railsback's baffled fugitive. Not exactly subtle in its confrontation of the captivating nature of movie machinations versus the questionable quality of real life, The Stunt Man is nonetheless ...more
- Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross
- Steve Railsback - Cameron
- Barbara Hershey - Nina Franklin
- Allen Garfield - Sam
- Alex Rocco - Jake
- John Alderman - Carlbinarri
- James Avery
- Whitey Hughes - Eli's A.D.
- John Pearce - Garage Guard
- George D. Wallace - Father
- Dee Carroll - Mother
- Nelson Tyler - Eli's Crane Cameraman
- John Garwood - Gabe
- Walter Robles - Eli's A.D.
- Richard Rush - Director
- Melvin Simon - Executive Producer
- Richard Rush - Producer
- Richard Rush - Screenwriter
- Lawrence B. Marcus - Screenwriter
- Paul Brodeur - Book Author
- James L. Schoppe - Art Director
- Paul Lewis - Associate Producer
- Rosanna Norton - Costume Designer
- Frank Beetson - First Assistant Director
- Caroline Biggerstaff - Editor
- Caroline Ferriol - Editor
- Jack Hofstra - Editor
- Dominic Frontiere - Composer (Music Score)
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