Release Date: Oct 8, 1975 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.1/5
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Hearts of the West (British title: Hollywood Cowboy) stars Jeff Bridges as Lewis Tater, a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey or Peter B. Kyne. He arrives in Nevada to seek out the correspondence school that has "graduated" him. After learning that he's been taken to the cleaners by crooks, he stumbles onto a threadbare film-unit grinding out "B" westerns. He is given a job by unit manager Kessler (Alan Arkin), then falls in love with spunky script girl
Oct 8, 1975 Wide
MGM
All Critics (8) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (1)
For all its flaws, this is still a very entertaining film.
Western spoof that falls off the saddle too many times.
Entertaining, but not very memorable. I had a few drinks before viewing, so that could have had something to do with that.
July 18, 2011An average movie elevated to good by Jeff Bridges. It takes a good actor to play a bad actor, and Bridges pulls it off. A young, naive Western writer stumbles his way into Hollywood films where he quickly learns fame isn't all it's cracked up to be. Also starring Andy Griffith and a younger Alan Arkin, I really
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