Movies

November, 1980

A movie lover's movie from beginning to end, The Stunt Man may be one of the happiest surprises of the season for audiences willing--and able--to think twice about what they see. All but buried alive by distributors who have been shying away from it for nearly two years, this offbeat movie within a movie by producer-director Richard Rush (who also did Freebie and the Bean) stars Peter O'Toole at the top of his splendid form as an utterly obsessed director who's shooting an antiwar epic in Southe...