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Scarecrow

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Two drifters (Gene Hackman, Al Pacino) bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
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Critics Consensus

If its dramatic dressings are a tad threadbare, Scarecrow survives on the strength of its lead performances and Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography.

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Perry Stewart Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com 05/25/2021
The film is strong, in every sense of that word. Go to Full Review
Rex Reed New York Daily News 05/25/2021
Gene Hackman and Al Pacino are wonderful, flexible, yeasty actors who make even the most trivial dialogue come alive, but their work in Scarecrow is too sophisticated for the film to support. Go to Full Review
Kevin Kelly Boston Globe 05/25/2021
"Scarecrow," principally because of the Hackman-Pacino tandem performance, has a kind of soiled, slum-charm... Go to Full Review
Christopher Lloyd The Film Yap 22h
4/5
Al Pacino and Gene Hackman did not get along during the making of this rambling road picture, though their characters found a certain harmony as castoffs who each gain a partner. Go to Full Review
Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Mar 22
4/4
A treasure of the 1970s... Go to Full Review
Yasser Medina Cinefilia 10/14/2022
5/10
It offers a pessimistic portrait of the American dream that finds itself on the dirtiest highway, but never finds its rhythm and wastes the dramatic potential of Pacino and Hackman when it tends to park on the roads of banality. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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David S. Nov 19 One of the strangest films I ever watched and have to say better than I thought it would be. Not a big fan of Al Pacino or Gene Hackman, but this great film is so out of left field, that I wish both would have tried similar films. A straight forward story, a fun seventies vibe, and good performances, can't go wrong with this one and It's definitely better than I thought!!! See more Navid S @navidshah94 Oct 6 A quietly devastating film about friendship, dreams, and the loneliness of drifters. Pacino and Hackman are incredible together — two lost souls searching for a bit of warmth in a cold world. Beautifully shot, tender, and tragic. A film that lingers long after it ends. See more Matheus F Sep 11 Hackman and Pacino deserved several accolades for this. See more Rami A Jul 12 Pacino and Hackman are fantastic! Their on-screen chemistry is what drives this movie, and honestly, if we had a 2-hour film of them just waiting for a car to pick them up, it would be just as entertaining. See more Aldo G Jun 22 I first screened this film a few years ago and thought it was dull. A second screening tells me I was wrong. I found the two lost souls - Hackman & Pacino - the second time around and I felt their pain. See more Simon T May 8 This is Gene Hackman's movie. While Al Pacino showboats and tries to channel Dustin Hoffman's Rizzo from Midnight Cowboy, Hackman just gets on with it, playing a solitary and angry drifter with delusions about the golden future he envisages running a Pittsburgh carwash. There are echoes of Pinter and Beckett in the aimless doodling these two nobodies do as they cross America and trash their futures. Luminously photographed by Vilmos Szigmond. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Two drifters (Gene Hackman, Al Pacino) bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
Director
Jerry Schatzberg
Producer
Robert M. Sherman
Screenwriter
Garry Michael White
Production Co
Warner Bros.
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 11, 1973, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 21, 2016
Runtime
1h 55m
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