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Features: DVD
In this rousing romantic adventure, Robert Redford plays an ex-world champion cowboy, reduced to huckstering breakfast food in a suit studded with flashing lights. Jane Fonda is a chic, sharp member of the electronic media, a TV newswoman who'll do anything to get a good story. When Redford rides out of a Las Vegas casino into the desert astride his sponsor's living symbol, a multi-million dollar racehorse, Jane is determined to discover why. She does, one step ahead of a posse of pursuing police. But by the time they reach a remote rendezvous, high in the Utah mountains, she is in love with both the cowboy and his convictions.
"Excellent Las Vegas and remote Western settings." VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
Editor's Note
Sydney Pollack directs this wonderful star-driven romp. Robert Redford plays Norman "Sonny" Steele, a former rodeo star who winds up working in a demeaning job in Las Vegas for a massive corporation, AMPCO. Sonny learns that his employer has purchased a $12 million racehorse as part of a merger. To protect the horse from being drugged with tranquilizers and generally mistreated, he steals it, freeing both himself and the horse. This sparks the curiosity of savvy broadcast journalist Alice "Hallie" Martin (Jane Fonda), who follows after him. Soon Fonda catches up to Redford and discovers the personal and political logic behind his choice to return the horse to its native grazing land far from the clutches of corporate greed. Aware that Sonny's wishes for the horse are the same ones he has for himself, she falls for him. The film is packed with beautiful scenery in remote western settings.
| Features | Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Theatrical Trailer | | Recommendations | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Widescreen Version |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 10/24/2006 |
| Running Time: 121 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1979 | | Catalog ID: 22748 | | UPC: 00025192274824 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1980) | | | Les Fresholtz, et al., Nominee, Best Sound |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...[An] invigorating new comedy that is acted to the nines by a fine cast, in particular by Robert Redford..." 12/21/1979 p.C10 |
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