Inside Moves

1980
PG
1h 53m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

2.4K

YOUR RATING

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Comedy Drama Romance Sport

Handicapped after an unsuccessful suicide attempt, a man finds common ground in the troubled souls at a local dive bar.Handicapped after an unsuccessful suicide attempt, a man finds common ground in the troubled souls at a local dive bar.Handicapped after an unsuccessful suicide attempt, a man finds common ground in the troubled souls at a local dive bar.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

2.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 nominations total

Trivia
First role in a theatrical feature film of actor Harold Russell since his dual Oscar (Academy Award) winning performance in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). The interval between the two pictures was about thirty-four years.

Quotes
Blue Lewis: [reading a story] Her huge melons glistened in the moonlight, she smiled, taunting him- then slowly, ever so slowly she began to undo... underher...
Stinky: Undulate?
Blue Lewis: Undulate...
Stinky: Undulate what? Her hips?
Blue Lewis: Yes, yes, her hips.
Stinky: Go ahead! Go ahead!
Blue Lewis: As her breasts moved towards him bubbling in the night air, he couldn't help but notice how she had grown from that small child from whom he had once babysat.
[shakes his head]
Blue Lewis: He reached out...
Stinky: Go ahead! Go ahead!
Blue Lewis: [swallowing] ... and gently touched her large brown, ore... OH!... A-U-R-E-O-L-E-S.
Stinky: Aureoles? Oh, you're killin' the story! Her large brown aureoles?
Blue Lewis: Uh what? He touched her cookies?

Alternate versions
Director Richard Donner concurrently filmed a less violent, family-friendly version of this movie for television according to an article published in the 10th March 1980 edition of show-business trade-paper 'The Hollywood Reporter'.

Connections
Featured in Inside Moves: From the Inside Out - Moving from Manuscript to Motion Picture (2009)

Soundtracks
Put Your Dreams Away
Performed by Frank Sinatra
Words and Music by Ruth Lowe (as R. Lowe), Paul Mann (as P. Mann), Stefan Weiß (as S Weiss)
courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.

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Review

Featured review

10/10

A film for the ages.

This is a movie about the kind of people most of us spend our lives trying to avoid: drunks, whores and cripples of every description. The setting is seamy, mostly taking place in an old neighborhood bar; no ferns here, no clever reparte between beautiful people. The is a story of loneliness and not a little darkness, leavened with gentle, often self-effacing humor.

The miracle here is the degree to which you wind up truly caring about what happens to these folks. The action in the movie is simple. The people are not, and it is a remarkable feat of storytelling to bring this ensemble to such rich, moving life.

This is truly a sleeper, Steinbeckian in its evocation of the common humanity in us all.