They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

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Gloria is a young woman of the Depression. She has aged beyond her years and feels her life is hopeless, having been cheated and betrayed many times in her past. While recovering from a suicide attempt, she gets the idea from a movie magazine to head for Hollywood to make it as an actress. Robert is a desperate Hollywood citizen trying to become a director, never doubting he'll make it. Robert and Gloria meet and decide to enter a dance marathon, one of the crazes of the 1930... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?:

Jane Fonda
Michael Sarrazin
Susannah York
Gig Young
Red Buttons
Bonnie Bedelia

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Gloria is a young woman of the Depression. She has aged beyond her years and feels her life is hopeless, having been cheated and betrayed many times in her past. While recovering from a suicide attempt, she gets the idea from a movie magazine to head for Hollywood to make it as an actress. Robert is a desperate Hollywood citizen trying to become a director, never doubting he'll make it. Robert and Gloria meet and decide to enter a dance marathon, one of the crazes of the 1930's. The grueling dancing takes its toll on Gloria's already weakened spirit, and she tells Robert that she'd be better off dead, that her life is hopeless - all the while acting cruelly and bitterly, alienating those around her, trying to convince him to shoot her and put her out of her misery. After all, they shoot horses, don't they?

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Cinema Sight - 10/10 by Wesley LovellThere has never been a film quite so original as this, featuring a wealth of noted actors fighting for their lives in a dance competition taking place during the Great Depression.
FilmFestivals.com - 10/10 by Moira SullivanJane Fonda and Michael Sarrazin portray one of the more sordid depression stories about survival on a dance floor to bring home the bacon.
Variety - 10/10 by Variety StaffA sordid spectacle of hard times, a kind of existentialist allegory of life.
Chicago Reader - 10/10 by Dave KehrThe material is simple and irresistible, and Sydney Pollack stages it well (though without transcending the essential superficiality of his talent).
Apollo Guide - 9/10 by Elspeth HaughtonThey Shoot Horses, Don't They? epitomizes the human condition of its own era, only this time the faces aren't romantic heroes on the front line but vulgar, desperate washouts.
RogerEbert.com - 9/10 by Roger EbertThe movie's delicately timed pacing and Pollack's visual style work almost stealthily to involve us; we begin to feel the physical weariness and spiritual desperation of the characters.
Austin Chronicle - 8/10 by Marjorie BaumgartenBleak but exquisitely fashioned microcosm of American life during the Depression.
The A.V. Club - 8/10 by Scott MacDonaldThe movie is so unrelievedly pessimistic that only the most dedicated misanthrope could love it. But there’s something oddly bracing—noble, even—about a Hollywood picture that’s willing to say, without even a hint of soft-pedaling, that life isn’t worth living, and that it’s squalid, unfair, and disappointing.
Eye for Film - 8/10 by Keith H. BrownThe performances are uniformly excellent, the actors -- desperate, hungry, fraught, close to breakdown -- live their roles.
Film Geek Central - 8/10 by Austin KennedyIt's depressing as hell, so it's not a movie I would watch repeatedly, but I'm sure glad I saw it. This is an important film about a time in America's history that wasn't so glamorous. You won't forget it.

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