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The Stunt Man (1980)

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Critic Reviews: 1
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Movie Info

Adapted 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 staged accident, causing (perhaps) the stunt man's death. Rather than turn Cameron in, director Eli Cross (Oscar nominee Peter O'Toole) makes him an offer he can't refuse: replace the dead stunt man

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Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Comedy

Aug 6, 2002

20th Century Fox Film Corp.

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All Critics (32) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (2) | DVD (21)

Richard Rush's inventive narrative about the blurred lines between movie reality and factual reality is vastly entertaining, boasting Peter O'Toole in a diabolical, delicious Oscar-nominated performance.

July 20, 2012 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

The film twists and turns from scene to scene, carrying the audience on the some whirlwind mind-game...

June 11, 2011 Full Review Source: MSN.com
MSN.com

Middle fingers aimed directly at the Establishment - both in tainted Tinseltown and the rest of a pre-Reagan America - are rarely as masterful as this brazen bird flip.

June 4, 2011 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

Overall a funny, compelling and curious film that was sabotaged by the Hollywood suits.

September 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

At the 1980 San Francisco Film Festival, François Truffaut was asked to name his favorite director. He replied, 'I don't know his name, but I just saw his picture last night. It's called The Stunt Man.'

April 5, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com
DVDJournal.com

Strange, challenging and quite great.

April 17, 2005
eFilmCritic.com

O'Toole at his tyranical best. Another great performance by the little seen Railsback.

November 11, 2004 | Comments (5)

Metaphors and surprises galore!

October 15, 2004

Quirky thriller

August 24, 2004
Film Journal International

The Stunt Man is a brilliant and provocative film about the mad mad world of moviemaking.

January 29, 2004 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice
Spirituality and Practice

A wild, bizarre "B" movie gone mainstream.

January 27, 2003
San Francisco Examiner

An overlong study in pretension.

November 1, 2002 | Comment (1)
Needcoffee.com

The best film ever made about the movies. O'Toole is brilliant

August 7, 2002
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

It has been cited numerously as one of the best films of the 80s. Less speculative is the claim that it is one of the decade's most mysteriously obscure.

April 3, 2002 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Audience Reviews for The Stunt Man

Time after time the camera shows us people in precarious situations here only to pull back to reveal that everything just witnessed was an elaborate gag designed to please the director of a film ... even the ins and outs of personal relationships. Are our own lives so controlled? A paranoid drug-fueled delusion, mindlessly rambling at points, still interesting at points.
September 20, 2011
UniversalDreamer

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An effing masterpiece from beginning to end. There is just no two ways about it. Peter O'Toole was right. "This film wasn't released, it escaped." An amazing piece of cinema and fantastic performances across the board.
June 12, 2011
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  • Der lange Tod des Stuntman Cameron (DE)
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