Stay Hungry (film)

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Stay Hungry

Directed by	Bob Rafelson
Produced by	Harold Schneider, Bob Rafelson
Written by	Charles Gaines, Bob Rafelson
Starring	Jeff Bridges Sally Field Arnold Schwarzenegger Scatman Crothers
Music by	Byron Berline, Bruce Langhorne
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	April 23, 1976
Running time	102 min.
Language	English
Budget	N/A
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Stay Hungry is a 1976 dramatic comedy film by director Bob Rafelson from a screenplay by Charles Gaines (adapted form his 1972 novel of the same name). The story centers on a young Birmingham, Alabama scion, played by Jeff Bridges, who gets involved in a shady real-estate deal. In order to close the deal, he needs to buy a gym building to complete a multi-parcel lot. When he visits the gym, however, he finds himself romantically interested in the receptionist (Sally Field) and drawn to the carefree lifestyle of the Austrian body builder "Joe Santo" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who is training there for the Mr. Universe competition.

Schwarzenegger won a Golden Globe for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture" for his portrayal of Joe Santo in Stay Hungry. Technically, it was not his debut role, since he had played Hercules (as "Arnold Strong") in the 1970 film Hercules in New York and a hit man in Robert Altman's 1973 film The Long Goodbye. It was, however, the first time his voice had been heard on film as Hercules was dubbed and the hit man character was deaf and mute.