Stay Hungry (1976)

Comedy Drama

Stay Hungry is a 1976 dramatic comedy film by director Bob Rafelson from a screenplay by Charles Gaines. The story centers on a young Birmingham, Alabama, scion, played by Jeff Bridges, who gets involved in a shady real-estate deal. In order to close the deal, he needs to buy a gym building to complete a multi-parcel lot. When he visits the gym, however, he finds himself romantically interested in the receptionist (Sally Field) and drawn to the carefree lifestyle of the Austrian body builder "Joe Santo" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who is training there for the Mr. Universe competition.

Updated May 9 2020

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US -

1976-04-23

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Keywords:

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FACTS

Runtime: 102 mins Revenue: $24,854,765 Budget: $5,000,000 Rating: 6.0 Tag Line: If you've got an appetite for life:

Cast

Sally Field

Mary Tate Farnsworth

Joanna Cassidy

Zoe

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Joe Santo

R.G. Armstrong

Thor Erickson

Jeff Bridges

Craig Blake

Robert Englund

Franklin

Scatman Crothers

William

Woodrow Parfrey

Uncle Albert