#lawrence b marcus

The Stunt Man (1980). A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.

I’m still trying to untangle my thoughts on this one really, but it’s definitely an interesting and memorable movie. Peter O'Toole crackles as a director who ends up in a manipulative, complicated relationship with his accidental stunt man after discovering he’s on the run from the police, and there’s some pretty fun meta sequences that bounce off the screen. That said, it never entirely pulled me in, and the comedy especially never really landed. 7/10.