--- title: 'Cutter''s Way (1981)' type: 'film' director: 'Ivan Passer' released: '1981-01-01' runtime_minutes: 106 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/cutters-way-1981' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082220/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Cutter's Way (1981) 1981 · R · 106 min · Drama, Crime · United States ## Synopsis Cutter's Way is a 1981 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Ivan Passer, and starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, and Lisa Eichhorn. It is adapted by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin from the 1976 novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg. The musical score was written by Jack Nitzsche. In the film, Vietnam veteran Alex Cutter (Heard) and his friend Richard Bone are embroiled in a murder investigation, after Cutter suspects that Bone was a witness. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ivan Passer](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-passer) - **Original Music Composer:** [Jack Nitzsche](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-nitzsche) - **Producer:** [Paul R. Gurian](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-r-gurian) - **Director of Photography:** [Jordan Cronenweth](https://cinepixo.com/people/jordan-cronenweth) ## Cast - [Arthur Rosenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-rosenberg) - [Julia Duffy](https://cinepixo.com/people/julia-duffy) - [Nina van Pallandt](https://cinepixo.com/people/nina-van-pallandt) - [Francis X. McCarthy](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-x-mccarthy) - [Ted White](https://cinepixo.com/people/ted-white) - [Stephen Elliott](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-elliott) - [Lisa Eichhorn](https://cinepixo.com/people/lisa-eichhorn) - [John Heard](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-heard) - [George Dickerson](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-dickerson) - [Billy Drago](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-drago) - [Jeff Bridges](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeff-bridges) - [Jonathan Terry](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-terry) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/cutters-way-1981 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1146563); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.