Stay Hungry

Stay Hungry is a 1976 dramatic comedy film by director Bob Rafelson from a screenplay by Charles Gaines adapted from his 1972 novel of the same name.

Craig Blake Jeff Bridges is a young Southern man born of a wealthy family, but left lonely and idle after his parents died in a plane crash. He is content to spend his time fishing, hunting and puttering around his large family mansion, inhabited only by himself and a butler Scatman Crothers. Blakes job is a sinecure working at a shady investment firm run by a slick con artist named Jabo Joe Spinell and he does very little actual work. But since he has to have his name on paper somehow as an employee, he is asked to personally transact the purchasing of a small gym that the real estate firm is buying in order to clear space for an office highrise.He initially approaches the gym representing himself as a businessman looking to buy it, and acts relatively impersonal with its staff, although he is strangely fascinated with the world he discovers there reflecting the expansion of physical exercise to the mainstream which occurred in the 1970s. But Blakes primary social life is centered around the upscale country club he attends. The audience is introduced to the ritzy country club crowd, including the WASPy Lester Ed Begley, Jr. and the roguish rake Halsey John David Carson. Blake spends his time at this club with his friends playing tennis and shooting poker dice, and flirting with the upperclass women of all ages one of whom asks Blake to find an authentic musical guest for an upcoming party at the club. ........

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