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Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichorn
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Cutter's Way
Based on Newton Thornburg's novel "Cutter & Bone", Cutters Way stars Jeff Bridges as Richard Bone. After sleeping with a woman Richard Bone goes to visit his friend Alex Cutter, a Vietnam veteran who's lost the use of his leg, and arm, and his left eye. Along the way Bone sees a man dumping a body in the garbage and the mysterious culprit almost runs Bone over as he sped away. A couple days later Bone gets picked up and questioned by the police but is released after six hours. He also makes the paper as a witness to the body dump. This is when the jaded Cutter decides that the murderer is a rich man by the name of J.J. Cord (Stepehen Elliot). For a while, Bone doesn't agree with this theory. He thinks it's pure fantasy until they find Cutter's house burned down and his wife dead. They use a friends invitation to get into a party at Cord's mansion where Bone finally realizes it was Cord and takes matters into his own hands.
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Analysis of Cutter's Way
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%



Time/Era of Movie: - 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story? Yes
Crime story: - catching/stopping killer
Criminal enemy is... - big business/rich guy

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - short/standard wavy (man)
Body type - average (man)
Unclothed? - Chest
Events of movie makes character more... - irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (man) long, like a girl
Body type - average build (man)
How much in movie? - 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - businessman, big
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 20%
Hair color - bald
Body type - fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Intelligence - Average intelligence
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - California
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel... - challenged
How many deaths in film? - 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing - seeing breasts - sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets? - 1 (None)
Kind of violence: - guns
Unusual forms of death - perforation--bullets
Any profanity? - Some foul language
Is this movie based on a - book
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