Electric Horseman

Electric Horseman

When this picture came out in 1979, both Robert Redford and Jane Fonda were at the height of their stardom; in fact, this movie was so big, it took two studios (Columbia and Universal) to make it. Redford plays Sonny Steele, champion rodeo rider turned corporate spokesman (and perpetual drunk). When he discovers that another corporate asset, a racehorse, is just like him--dressed like a buffoon and doped up to the gills--he decides to liberate the animal. Redford's grumpy, wise, and funny performance demonstrates why he was (and is) such a big star (and why director Sydney Pollack made seven movies with him). Fonda is fine as the bright, ambitious, frightened TV reporter whose pursuit of a story pitches her headlong into love. The ending may seem anticlimatic (the big comedy chase comes in the middle of the film), but this is much more a romance story than a chase film. From the beginning, there's little doubt how the story will end (although even then, the movie throws us a little curve), but the movie compensates with sheer star power; Redford and Fonda are all that matter, and in this case they deliver, along with Willie Nelson's fine performance in a pivotal supporting role. --Geof Miller

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PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
1979
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Hallie Martin:
You ride off with somebody else's twelve million dollar horse, did you think we wouldn't notice?

Sonny Steele:
You've had a hard day. Why don't you scrunch down in the bag?

Hallie Martin:
Oh, I wish it were that easy. I don't sleep.

Sonny:
Ever? How old are you?

Hallie Martin:
Okay, I respect your position. I don't understand it, but I respect it. A lot of famous people hated publicity: Albert Schweitzer. Franco. ...Albert Schweitzer.

Sonny Steele:
I ain't carrying it. And you can't carry it.

Hallie Martin:
The hell I can't. I've carried this stuff a lot of times.

Sonny Steele:
Where? Up the escalator at Bloomingtons, or Bloomingbirds or where ever the hell it is?

Hallie Martin:
Bloomingdales!

Hallie Martin:
I've been to the rodeo. Twice.

Sonny Steele:
Did you stay for the rattlesnake round up?

Hallie Martin:
Yes. I stayed. Right till the end. I saw the whole thing.

Sonny Steele:
They don't have one. How're you gonna round up a rattlesnake?

Hallie Martin:
I'm just trying to be pleasant. You get so worked up about everything.

Sonny Steele:
What have I got to be worked up about? I've only got a stole horse; everybody except the Coast Guard is after me; I've got nothin' but miles of open country to cross; and now I'm carrying a crazy woman around wearin' shoes from Bloomingbirds who thinks she's seen a rattlesnake round up.

Hallie Martin:
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Sonny Steele:
I know. I'm the one who said it.

Wendall:
I'm gonna get me a bottle of tequila and find me a woman can suck the chrome off a bumper hitch.

Hallie Martin:
Mr. Steele, why were you 45 minutes late to the press confrence?

Sonny Steele:
Well, I'd like to aplogize for that. I was giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to a bottle of tequila. And, we lost her too.

Hallie Martin:
Did we like each other?

Sonny Steele:
Oh, no, why don't you just take a picture of Grace in front of that picture of me with that box with the picture of me on the box holding the picture of me with the picture of me? Then you've got Grace, and you've got a whole bunch of pictures of me.

Hallie Martin:
You're all bent. Are you sick?

Sonny Steele:
Nope. Just bent.

Sonny:
“ I'm not used to being talked

about like I was a horse thief.“

Hallie:
“Well, what do you call a man

who steals horses?”

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