Event Details
Ivan Passer (Intimate Lighting, 1966) directed this low-key mystery, based on Newton Thornberg’s novel Cutter and Bone. John Heard is Cutter, a disabled, hard-drinking Vietnam veteran, and Jeff Bridges is Bone, his easygoing best friend. When Cutter becomes convinced that Bone is the witness to a young woman’s murder, the resulting obsession challenges their friendship and threatens their lives. With its Santa Barbara setting, evocative cinematography by Jordan Cronenweth (Blade Runner, 1982), and a dreamy score by Jack Nitzsche (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975), Cutter’s Way is a one-of-a-kind cross between a 70s-style character study and a paranoid thriller.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1981 | 109 min. | USA | Color | English | Rated R | DCP
DIRECTED BY: Ivan Passer
WRITTEN BY: Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
WITH: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry