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Name: Scarecrow
Released: 1973-4-11
Cast: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Lynch

Scarecrow

R
1h 52m
1973

76%

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Academy Award winners Gene Hackman and Al Pacino star as two very different men who develop a profound bond of friendship as they hitchhike east across the United States. While traveling to the east cost to open a car wash, paroled convict Max (Hackman) meets a sailor named Lion (Pacino) who dreams of reuniting with his wife and child after six years. Lion helps Max learn to understand and manage his anger, and Max discovers the fragility of his new friend Lion. But as both learn that they will never realize their goals, they discover a friendship even more important than their former dreams. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Palm D'Or award.

Director:

Jerry Schatzberg

Producer:

Robert M. Sherman

Writer:

Carry Michael White

Cast:

Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Lynch, Eileen Brennan, Penny Allen, Richard Hackman, Al Cingolani, Rutanya Alda

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

76%

Critics Consensus: If its dramatic dressings are a tad threadbare, Scarecrow survives on the strength of its lead performances and Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography.

Reviews

Cinefilia

Yasser Medina

It offers a pessimistic portrait of the American dream that finds itself on the dirtiest highway, but never finds its rhythm and wastes the dramatic potential of Pacino and Hackman when it tends to park on the roads of banality. [Full review in Spanish]

...the picture’s impact is heightened considerably by the engrossing and persistently captivating efforts of its stars...

June 3, 2022

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

Perry Stewart

The film is strong, in every sense of that word.

From the stunningly composed opening scene... "Scarecrow" emerges as a film that takes over where "Midnight Cowboy" and "Easy Rider" left off.

Gene Hackman and Al Pacino are wonderful, flexible, yeasty actors who make even the most trivial dialogue come alive, but their work in Scarecrow is too sophisticated for the film to support.

May 25, 2021

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