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  • 1980
  • PG
  • Associated Film Distribution (AFD)
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 1980
  • PG
  • Associated Film Distribution (AFD)
  • 1 h 53 m
Inside Moves

Summary After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Roary begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Roary and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging...

Directed By: Richard Donner

Written By: Todd Walton, Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson

  • 1980
  • PG
  • Associated Film Distribution (AFD)
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 1980
  • PG
  • Associated Film Distribution (AFD)
  • 1 h 53 m

Inside Moves

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Roary begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Roary and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging...

Directed By: Richard Donner

Written By: Todd Walton, Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
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38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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70
Donner has directed with a strong, quiet sense of human nuance that includes enough irony to give the bum's rush to the self pity that keeps trying to sneak into Max's Bar. [05 Jan 1981, p.55]
By Jack Kroll FULL REVIEW
70
Donner has directed with a strong, quiet sense of human nuance that includes enough irony to give the bum's rush to the self pity that keeps trying to sneak into Max's Bar. [05 Jan 1981, p.55]
By Jack Kroll FULL REVIEW
70
Inside Moves is sneaky-funny and sneaky-affecting. It's an artfully old-fashioned morale booster celebrating comeback kids: apparent losers, outcasts and hard-luck cases who manage to pull themselves together, buck the odds and reaffirm their pride, dignity and masculinity. [18 Dec 1980, p.C1]
By Gary Arnold FULL REVIEW
67
As an attempt to cash in on the inspirational-underdog-sports-movie model popularized a few years earlier by Rocky, Inside Moves is rather transparent: Morse’s Jerry Maxwell is an even longer shot for stardom than the Italian Stallion. But what’s affecting here is the relationship between Jerry and Roary (John Savage), who is the film’s true protagonist.
By Adam Nayman FULL REVIEW
50
Inoffensive and essentially compassionate, Inside Moves is also a highly conventional and predictable look at handicapped citizens trying to make it in everyday life.
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50
Despite a predictable plot and an abundance of stereotypes--the product of a surprisingly clunky script by Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin--this is a well-meaning film with strong performances all around.
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50
Sheer eccentricity and ambitiousness place Inside Moves above the Kramer class, but ultimately the film only reconfirms that good liberal intentions rarely produce good Hollywood movies.
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Production Company Goodmark Productions Inc.
Release Date Dec 19, 1980
Duration 1 h 53 m
Rating PG
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Tagline This is a Story About People Who Don't Always Fit In. But They Have a Dream...And a Sense of Humor...And That Makes Them Special. When That Dream Comes True, It Makes Them Winners.
Website https://play.hbomax.com/page/urn:hbo:page:GXjgqaAGtu8PDwwEAAAAL:type:feature
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards
• 1 Nomination

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