# Stay Hungry (1976)

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**Runtime**: 102 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama
**Directed by**: Bob Rafelson
**Written by**: Bob Rafelson, Charles Gaines
**Starring**: Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Englund, Helena Kallianiotes

> *If you've got an appetite for life…*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Here's a film that appears to be about bodybuilding, but is actually about real estate. A spoiled rich kid in Alabama is asked to muscle in on a gym deal, but he grows fond of the iron-pumping inhabitants. It's a slight movie, more interested in character than plot, but it tries hard.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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