They Shoot Horses, Don

Play: Play They Shoot Horses, Don

Download: Download They Shoot Horses, Don

Actors: Bruce Dern , Jane Fonda , Susannah York , Red Buttons , Severn Darden , Gig Young , Felice Orlandi , Allyn Ann McLerie , Bonnie Bedelia , Michael Sarrazin , Madge Kennedy , Michael Conrad , Jacquelyn Hyde , Al Lewis , Robert Fields

Director: Sydney Pollack

IMDB Rate: 7.9 out of 10 (5727 votes)

Plot Summary:Gloria is a young woman of the Depression. She has aged beyond her years and feels her life is hopeless, having been cheated and betrayed many times in her past. Fantasizing about movies, she sees herself as an actress and decides to head for Hollywood, having got the idea from a movie magazine while recuperating in the hospital from a suicide attempt which resulted from another unhappy love affair. Robert, a desperate Hollywood citizen unsuccessfully trying to become a director, never doubting that hell eventually make it. Robert and Gloria meet and decide to enter a dance marathon, one of the crazes of the thirties. The grueling dancing takes its toll on Glorias already weakened spirit, and she tells Robert that shed be better off dead, that her life is hopeless - all the while acting cruel and bitter, alienating those around her, trying to convince him to shoot her and put her out of her misery. After all, they shoot horses, dont they?