Stay Hungry poster
Screenplay Bob Rafelson, Charles Gaines
Director Bob Rafelson

Stay Hungry

Tagline: If you've got an appetite for life:

Release Date: 1976-04-23

Duration: 102 minutes

Synopsis

A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after spending time with weightlifter Joe Santo and gym worker Mary Tate Farnsworth, Craig wants out of the deal. The property negotiations turn ugly, causing a brawl at the gym and a spectacle at a big bodybuilding meet, as Craig learns that it's not easy to turn your back on fair-weather friends.

Casting

  • Jeff Bridges
    Craig Blake
  • Sally Field
    Mary Tate Farnsworth
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Joe Santo
  • Joanna Cassidy
    Zoe
  • Ed Begley Jr.
    Lester
  • Robert Englund
    Franklin
  • Dennis Burkley
    Heavy #2
  • Scatman Crothers
    William
  • Roger E. Mosley
    Newton
  • R. G. Armstrong
    Thor Erickson