A real-estate buyout creeping through one city block sets the stage for this 1976 comedy-drama, which follows a wealthy front man sent to close the deal on the last holdout: a small neighborhood gym.
What is Stay Hungry about?
The plot follows a syndicate that has already purchased an entire district for redevelopment, with a single exception: a modest gym called Olympic. A wealthy man named Craig Blake is dispatched by the syndicate to persuade or pressure the gym's owner into selling, and the film builds its comedy and its drama around that holdout negotiation rather than around a broader ensemble plot. The setting is workaday and local rather than glamorous, and the film leans on everyday tension between money and community rather than on spectacle.
About the cast
The cast is led by Jeff Bridges and Sally Field, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, R. G. Armstrong, Robert Englund, Helena Kallianiotes, Roger E. Mosley, and Woodrow Parfrey filling out the ensemble around the gym and the syndicate. Bob Rafelson directs, letting the holdout negotiation at the center of the plot carry most of the film's tension rather than any single performance.
Context & significance
Filed under Comedy and Drama rather than either genre alone, the film sits in K-Time's catalogue as a 1970s American production with no Persian dub or subtitle track attached, so it plays in its original English. Running just over 100 minutes, it's a compact watch built around one negotiation rather than a sprawling plot, which keeps its pacing tighter than many films from the same decade and genre pairing.
Watching Stay Hungry on Ktime
Streaming on K-Time requires only a free account and login — there's no separate purchase step for this title. Viewers navigating the Farsi-first interface can find it filed under its English title alongside other American comedy-dramas from the same era.