Cinema: Odd Couple

CUTTER AND BONE

Directed by Ivan Passer

Screenplay by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin

Cutter (John Heard) is crazy angry and has every, right to be. He lost an eye, an arm and a leg in Viet Nam, and there are hints that a family fortune was somehow dissipated before that. He drinks, makes terrible scenes in public, and in private treats his wife Mo (Lisa Eichhorn) shamefully. Bone (Jeff Bridges) is pathologically amiable, a gentle gigolo who would rather be out on his sailboat or, better still, indulging a dream of rescuing his buddy's lady from her...

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