Jeff Bridges actually corralled an Oscar nomination for his spirited, oddball performance in the genre-crime story Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, directed by first-timer Michael Cimino who (a short two films later) would bring down a studio with Heaven's Gate. Clint Eastwood plays a bank robber par excellence with a flair for explosives who is being hunted by his former partners, who think he has their loot from their last job. Bridges is his eager apprentice and sidekick, who helps him escape; when Eastwood finally makes peace with his hunters, Bridges convinces them... to try a daring robbery--but things inevitably go awry. The relationship between Eastwood and Bridges is both funny and touching in this, one of Eastwood's better post-Dirty Harry efforts. --Marshall Fine [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Seminal filmmaker Michael Cimino directed his first feature with Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridgesbefore going on to direct such classics as The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate Bridges was nominated for an Oscar for his role in this action-filled crime caper in which he plays Lightfoot the naïve sidekick to the veteran bank robber Thunderbolt (Eastwood) The two revisit an old crime site after losing the loot the first time and decide to retrieve the stash But some of the original robbers have different plans and it soon becomes every man for himself Actors Clint Eastwood George Kennedy Jeff Bridges Geoffrey Lewis Catherine Bach Gary Busey Bill McKinney & Dub Taylor Director Michael Cimino Certificate 18 years and over Year 1974 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English ; French ; German ; Spanish - Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles Danish ; Dutch ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; French ; German for the hearing impaired ; Greek ; Hungarian ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour and 50 minutes (approx)
Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges star in this comedy drama about an unlikely partnership between a retired thief and a drifter. Thunderbolt (Eastwood) hung up his stealing shoes a long time ago but misses the thrill and excitement. He hatches a plan to recover his lost loot from years before with the help of a few old friends. When hiding the money in an old schoolhouse Thunderbolt is startled by a homeless man by the name of Lightfoot (Bridges). When Thunderbolt's accomplices decide they want a bigger share of the findings, he and Lightfoot team up in an attempt to keep the money safe.
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