Ernie gives it a shot at boxing with Tully’s ex-coach Ruben ( Nicholas Colastano), while Billy shacks up with boozy slooze Oma ( Susan Tyrell). When he meets eighteen-year-old Ernie ( Jeff Bridges) he immediately recognizes the potential in him. It’s the story of two boxers whose only similarity is their weight class Billy Tully ( Stacey Keach) is almost 30 years old and past his prime nowadays he can’t punch his way out of a wet paper bag without pulling a muscle. Set in Stockton, California, Huston’s picture is a slice of Americana peppered with authentic images and encounters of the blue-collared and the unemployed, ending with a final elliptical point of view life passes you by while you sit on a barstool, watching it from a distance, plastered. Listen to Kris Kristofferson’s “Help Me Make It Through The Night,” an original song that bookends “Fat City,” and you’ll get how touching, and hopelessly human, John Huston’s late masterwork really is.
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