Cutter's Way

About Cutter's Way

Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.

Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way is a 1981 crime mystery film. Released in March 1981, it runs 109 minutes.

The film is filed under alcohol, vietnam, arson, and witness.

Jeff Bridges appears as Richard Bone, John Heard as Alex Cutter, Lisa Eichhorn as Maureen Cutter, 'Mo', and Stephen Elliott as J. J. Cord. The screenplay is by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus.

Memento, Léon: The Professional, and Sicario make useful companions to Cutter's Way, all filed under murder, neo-noir, and revenge. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 189 votes and it carries a R rating.