Yowza! Yowza! Yowza!
In the darkest year of the Great Depression, a group of desperate strangers gather at a seaside dance hall for a grueling marathon contest. The prize: $1,500 – enough money to transform their broken lives. The cost: pushing their bodies and minds beyond all human limits. Director Sidney Pollack crafts a mesmerizing allegory about capitalism and exploitation that still resonates decades later.
"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (1969) takes us inside this brutal spectacle where human suffering becomes entertainment. Jane Fonda delivers a career-defining performance as Gloria, a failed actress whose bitter exterior masks profound vulnerability. Michael Sarrazin plays her reluctant partner Robert, while Gig Young (in his Oscar-winning role) portrays Rocky, the manipulative master of ceremonies who squeezes every drop of drama from his contestants' misery with cries of "Yowza, yowza, yowza!"
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