The Contenders:
Breaker Morant
Coal Miner’s Daughter
The Elephant Man
Ordinary People (winner)
The Stunt Man
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The Stunt Man
Format: DVD from NetFlix on laptop. 
I vaguely remember the release of The Stunt Man. Actually, what I remember is seeing a clip of it on Roger Ebert’s and Gene Siskel’s review show in 1980 and thinking it looked cool. These days, I’m more interested in the presence of Peter O’Toole than I am specifically in the story. Now that I’ve seen it, this is especially true, since the story very much seems like the weakest point of the film. I’ve mentioned my need for verisimilitude before; if I can’t buy into the world of the film, or if the film sets up a reality that it then breaks, it loses me. While there’s plenty to like here, there’s also quite a bit I found frustrating.
A Vietnam vet named Cameron (Steve Railsback) is on the run from the police for unknown reasons. The police manage to get a set of cuffs on him, but he escapes, breaks the cuffs, and runs off. Eventually he finds himself on a bridge where the driver of an old car appears to stop to give him a ride. However, the driver turns the car around and drives right at Cameron as if he’s going to run him down. Cameron throws something at the car to defend himself, the car goes off the bridge, and Cameron finds himself looking at several men in a helicopter.
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