# Cutter's Way (1981)

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**Runtime**: 109 min
**Genres**: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
**Directed by**: Ivan Passer
**Written by**: Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
**Starring**: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Stephen Elliott, Arthur Rosenberg, Nina van Pallandt

> *Cutter does everything his way. Fighting. Loving. Working. Tracking down a killer.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Santa Barbara’s haze in late September, the thud of a dropped whiskey glass.

A one-eyed drunk with a hook for a hand and a crutch under his armpot recruits a drifter he calls Friend to stalk a city that accused the wrong man.

Stillborn Hitchcockia with a country song on the jukebox.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, paranoid, raw

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