Synopsis
Stay Hungry (1976) is a Bob Rafelson comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. Craig Blake, a rich young heir drifting through Alabama, agrees to buy up a city block for some shady developers — until he hits the last holdout, a scruffy gym called the Olympic.
To close the deal he has to win over the regulars, and the more time he spends there the less he wants any part of it. Jeff Bridges plays Craig as a man losing his appetite for easy money; Sally Field is the gym worker he falls for; and a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, cast as bodybuilder Joe Santo prepping for a contest, picked up a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer.
Adapted by Charles Gaines from his own novel, it's an odd, likable blend of Southern drama, social comedy and gym-floor sports picture. The real reason to track it down: it catches a future action icon while he's still playing a shy, soft-spoken human being. Stream Stay Hungry (1976) online on iFILM.
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