Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Theatrical Release: 01/01/1981(USA)
Release Date: 07/10/2001
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 109 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: MGM
After emigrating to the United States in 1969, Czech-born director
Ivan Passer finally broke through to American audiences with his fourth film, a unique blend of
mystery and social commentary.
Cutter's Way is set in Santa Barbara, CA, a community of wealth and power. Its main characters, however, are among the town's have-nots:
Richard Bone Jeff Bridges, a beach-boy gigolo starting to go to seed;
Bone's best friend
Alex Cutter (
John Heard), a Vietnam veteran maimed in body and spirit; and
Mo (
Lisa Eichorn),
Cutter's alcoholic wife. When
Cutter spots one of the community's most prominent citizens in the act of covering up a murder,
Bone insists that the police would never take their word over that of a man of wealth and prestige.
Cutter seizes the opportunity to blackmail the killer, as a means of striking back at a system he thinks sent him off to an unjust war and ruined his life. The film was fortunate to fall into the hands of
United Artists Classics, a new division of the company crippled by the financial disaster of
Heaven's Gate.
UA Classics adroitly marketed
Cutter's Way, riding a wave of rave reviews and good word-of-mouth among more discriminating filmgoers to modest box-office success.
~ Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide
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