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La blessure

Original title: Cutter's Way
  • 1981
  • 12
  • 1h 49m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
8.3K
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Jeff Bridges, John Heard, and Lisa Eichhorn in La blessure (1981)
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Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

  • Director
    • Ivan Passer
  • Writers
    • Newton Thornburg
    • Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
  • Stars
    • Jeff Bridges
    • John Heard
    • Lisa Eichhorn
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    8.3K
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    • Director
      • Ivan Passer
    • Writers
      • Newton Thornburg
      • Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
    • Stars
      • Jeff Bridges
      • John Heard
      • Lisa Eichhorn
    • 85User reviews
    • 69Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Jeff Bridges
    Jeff Bridges
    • Richard Bone
    John Heard
    John Heard
    • Alex Cutter
    Lisa Eichhorn
    Lisa Eichhorn
    • Maureen Cutter, 'Mo'
    Ann Dusenberry
    Ann Dusenberry
    • Valerie Duran
    Stephen Elliott
    Stephen Elliott
    • J.J. Cord
    Arthur Rosenberg
    Arthur Rosenberg
    • George Swanson
    Nina van Pallandt
    Nina van Pallandt
    • Woman in the Hotel
    Patricia Donahue
    Patricia Donahue
    • Mrs. Cord
    Geraldine Baron
    • Susie Swanson
    Katherine Pass
    • Toyota Woman
    Francis X. McCarthy
    Francis X. McCarthy
    • Toyota Man
    • (as Frank McCarthy)
    George Planco
    • Toyota Cop
    Jay Fletcher
    Jay Fletcher
    • Cord Security Guard
    George Dickerson
    • Mortician
    Jack Murdock
    Jack Murdock
    • Concession Owner
    Essex Smith
    • Black #1
    Rod Gist
    • Black #2
    Leonard Lightfoot
    • Black #3
    • Director
      • Ivan Passer
    • Writers
      • Newton Thornburg
      • Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
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    9greenscreen2

    A hauntingly beautiful portrayal of cynicism and the pathetic human condition

    I stumbled upon this movie at the Nickelodeon on Cape Cod the year of its release...at a time when VCR's and DVD's weren't a part of our culture...when you had to travel to obscure and far-out theaters to see obscure and far-out films during the fading window of opportunity offered as its limited run at the movie house. What a gem. I was instantly riveted by the story and the classic performances that brought it to life. The pathetic human condition personified in Cutter, Bone, and Mo is so exquisitely rendered as to be tragic...only salvaged by the clear-eyed wit and insight of John Heard's Cutter and the tempered and logical cynicism and indifference offered up by Bone(Jeff Bridges)as the balance that only these begrudging friends could provide each other. Lisa Eichorn's character(Mo) exhibits equal measures of the qualities both her male couterparts have and her subtle performance points up the conflict she feels in simultaneously rejecting and craving their opposing energies. The scene where she chews them both out for their selfish and naive plot and their spirited responses seems to spill from their beings as genuine emotion...not written dialogue...and it still sends chills through me...very powerful...and the scene where she is made painfully aware of Bone's incurable drive to bed women as she falls prey to his momentary sympathies ..when coupled with her husband's(Cutter) inability to give a soft refuge to her is so tragically realistic...tears flow. Everyone's shortcoming's cross-up everyone else's and as the surrealistic climax develops its symbolism and power are Shakespearian. This movie works as a crime thriller, a portrait of the underbelly of American culture most evidenced in its loss of confidence and embrace of cynicism that came to the surface post-Vietnam...but most successfully as a great character-driven love story and tragedy.
    tiarings

    Radically better than anyone could expect....

    Ostensibly this film appears to be a buddy movie from the 1980s, but it is actually something much more interesting. Employing standard Hollywood clinches with its thriller/ investigation narrative and many of of its "stock" characters and situations, the little guys - Heard and Bridges - take on Mr Fat Cat Capitalist who rules the peacetime world like an untouchable and corrupt monarch. The film, though well-executed and enjoyable, at first seems no more than a well-scripted, well-acted (Heard is particularly good as the embittered, crippled Vietnam Veteran) genre piece. However, what emerges by the end is something far more exciting and radical - an indictment of US politics and power relations, and a genuinely bleak reflection on the impossibility and rarity of real justice both at the micro and macro levels.

    Vietnam and its true significance is used to great effect in the film, as is the interplay between the two buddies. Whilst Bridges won't accept that he has witnessed the ultimate, bleak truth of US power relations until the film's abrupt, punchy end, Heard knows the truth intuitively and automatically because he understands and hates the world from the the start. He has given up on notions such as forgiveness and even the need for legal process, and seeks only revenge on the rich and the powerful. He understands, correctly, that is the only way a kind of momentary justice is possible, since everything else is either controlled by the elites or made to protect them. Without wishing to spoil the film's brilliant final moments, it is here that the whodunnit story is stripped away and the guilt they have been seeking to prove, as Richard Bone realises, becomes entirely political or metaphysical, and the the crime itself becomes irrelevant.
    8davemccrea-1

    Brilliant script and direction

    This movie is beautifully shot with a great score that sounds unlike any other score I've ever heard. Then you have a great performance from John Heard and a great screenplay that obviously had a tremendous novel behind it.

    If you like those gritty late 70s early 80s California noir movies like Straight Time, Who'll Stop The Rain and Chinatown, this is as good as any of those. I have just watched it and I don't think I will forget it anytime soon. It's packed with memorable moments and fully-developed characters.

    They don't make movies like this anymore. It makes me wonder what Jeff Bridges thinks about on the set of Iron Man 2 - I've never been a huge fan but the guy did a string of great dramas in the 80s like Fabulous Baker Boys, American Heart and this. He must be thinking "what happened to all those good scripts that used to be knocking around??"
    7SnoopyStyle

    Amazing Acting from John Heard

    Alex Cutter (John Heard) is a drunken disabled war veteran. His wife Mo (Lisa Eichorn) is also a drunken mess. Their best friend Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) is a witness to a murder, and he thinks that the killer is this powerful oil tycoon JJ Cord (Stephen Elliott). Cutter refuses to let it go, and together with the victim's sister Valerie Duran (Ann Dusenberry) harasses Bone to get JJ.

    The main drawback is that their plan was never going to work. If they really thought about it, they would see it as a fool's errand. The plan actually insulates JJ from any testimony from Bone. The plan actually helps JJ.

    However we know Cutter is a drunk bastard. So I'm willing to believe that he would come up with a poorly constructed plan. It's the acting that is so superior in this. John Heard really goes all out, and Jeff Bridges' calmness makes them the perfect duo. I just love how crazy John Heard gets. He really shines.
    7athanasiosze

    7.4/10. Recommended

    Not exactly a hidden gem, but close. A very good (alas, forgotten) movie, i am so glad i found it. Of course, this movie would have banished in outer space nowadays, and everyone here (director, actors etc) would get cancelled. That's another reason for any self respected moviegoer to watch it, especially if he/she is a fan of this genre.

    This is a very good crime/drama movie but it's a bit different than you might expect. If you are looking for action/car chasing/shootings and killings, stay away. This has nothing to do with all of that. It takes its time to unfold, it respects its audience, characters are really flawed, no heroes here. Just broken people trying to find meaning in a world without meaning. Broken people who look for justice or for a human touch. It's more of a "character study" than a crime drama, i'd say. But the characters are so magnetic and the actors are so charismatic that i didn't even care if they are gonna achieve their goals. I just wanted to watch them, facing their dilemmas and struggles. This is so good that i didn't even care about its somewhat weak ending. Ending was not that satisfying but the creators here didn't want to made a movie which will satisfy the audience. They just wanted to create a REAL movie, with "identity" and "personality". I wish i could express it better but i think you get the point. This is a flawed but REAL movie for every cinephile to enjoy. NOT a dumb bubblegum of a movie like the majority of them nowadays.

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    • Trivia
      Before production started on this film, Ivan Passer and producer Paul R. Gurian went to Jeff Bridges' house to ask him if he would agree to play Bone. After both entered Bridges' property, the actor's dog, a big German shepherd, attacked Gurian, biting him on the jaw. Gurian nearly died. Bridges later confessed that, after this incident, he had no choice but to accept the role in order to avoid being sued for several million dollars.
    • Goofs
      Valerie's disappearance is neither explained nor noted by the main characters.
    • Quotes

      Alex Cutter: I don't drink. You know, the routine grind drives me to drink. Tragedy, I take straight.

    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Raiders of the Lost Ark, City of Women, I Sent a Letter To My Love, Cutter's Way (1981)
    • Soundtracks
      We're Old Enough to Know
      Music by Jack Nitzsche

      Lyrics by John Byrum

      Vocals by Jack Nitzsche

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    • Release date
      • February 10, 1982 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Cutter's Way
    • Filming locations
      • 800 Alvarado Place, Santa Barbara, California, USA(El Encanto Hotel scenes.)
    • Production company
      • Gurian Entertainment
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    • Budget
      • $3,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,729,274
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,752,634
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 49m(109 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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