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Cutter's Way
Cutter's Way (also known as "Cutter and Bone") is a 1981 thriller directed by Ivan Passer. The film stars Jeff Bridges, John Heard, and Lisa Eichhorn. The screenplay was by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin, based on the novel "Cutter and Bone" by Newton Thornburg.
Plot.
One rainy night in Santa Barbara, California, Richard Bone's (Bridges) car breaks down in an alleyway. He spots a large, mysterious car in the distance. A man dumps
Best Motion Picture Screenplay. In 1983, the film won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association. Writing in 2011, John Patterson called it "note-perfect" and a "masterpiece", praising all three of the lead performances, while acknowledging it required multiple viewings to perceive its strengths.
"Cutter's Way" holds a rating of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 22 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "A suitably cynical neo-noir that echoes the disillusionment of its era