Scarecrow (1973)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 4
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Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.7/5
User Ratings: 6,100
Movie Info
An ex-con learns the value of friendship in Jerry Schatzberg's picaresque road movie. Trying to hitch a ride on a desolate California road, fresh-out-of-prison Max (Gene Hackman) meets ex-sailor Lion (Al Pacino). They are both headed east, as Max dreams of opening a deluxe car wash in Pittsburgh and Lion believes that the wife and child he left behind will still welcome him home. The two decide to journey together, forging an increasingly deep yet uncertain friendship, as Lion teaches Max how
Jan 1, 1973 Wide
Jul 12, 2005
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Cast
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Gene Hackman
Max -
Al Pacino
Lion -
Dorothy Tristan
Coley -
Ann Wedgeworth
Frenchy -
Richard Lynch
Riley -
Eileen Brennan
Darlene -
Rutanya Alda
Woman in Camper -
Penelope Allen
Annie -
Al Cingolani
Skipper -
Richard Hackman
Mickey
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All Critics (22) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (4) | DVD (4)
Hollywood movies have rarely spoken such tough and tender truths.
Periodically interesting but ultimately unsatisfying.
Schatzberg throws away the more interesting implications in order to make emotional hay.
Top CriticI assume that Schatzberg and White wanted somehow to ennoble Max and Lionel, but they sentimentalize them.
There are fine moments, as there would have to be with Hackman and Pacino.
Jerry Schatzberg's film embraces sprawl of both the narrative and geographical variety with freewheeling abandon.
The best film in Schatzberg's small but interesting oeuvre.
A poignant tale of lost souls from a golden age of US cinema.
As a picture of blue-collar America the film is credible and compassionate.
This is a jewel of American cinema.
This is no lost classic, but Pacino/Hackman superfans could do a lot, lot worse.
With its two peerless leads delivering riveting performances, this snapshot of the landscape of early 1970s America - external and internal - is a fine entry into the road movie canon.
It's strong on the details of itinerant life, and allows plotting to take a back seat to character.
A road film, buddy movie and character study dramedy about alienation... .
Embora siga claramente o padrão estabelecido por obras como Easy Rider e Perdidos na Noite, isto não impede o filme de se estabelecer como um tocante estudo de personagens - especialmente graças à dinâmica brilhante entre Hackman e Pacino.
A compassionate buddy film about two lost, forgotten souls who still dream of a better life. A great, unsung film that all Hackman and Pacino fans must seek out.
Suffused with sentimentality, humor and melancholy, it's also one of the most gorgeous movies of the decade this side of Terrence Malick...
A lively picaresque tale of two down-and-out buddies struggling to survive.
It never really finds its groove.
Memorable performances by Hackman and Pacino overcome a sometimes shaky script to create a touching story of a convincingly messy friendship.
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