Hard Times

Hard Times (1975)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (9 reviews)

  • 73% of users liked it
    (3,762 ratings)

Also known as The Streetfighter, Hard Times stars Charles Bronson as Chaney, an aging bare-knuckle boxer, trying to scratch out a living in the middle of the Depression. "Speed" (James Coburn) is the two-bit promoter who books Chaney in the tank towns of the South and Midwest. He is briefly… More

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PG, 1 hr. 32 min.
Directed By
Walter Hill
Written By
Bryan Gindorff, Bruce Henstell, Walter Hill
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics
On DVD
May 22, 2001
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    Rough and grim knuckle-fighting drama headlining Charles Bronson.

  • Chuck O'Leary, Fantastica Daily

    Walter Hill's first film as a director is spare, elegiac and as tough as a nickel steak.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • danny d


    fantastic fight flick

  • AJ V


    Sure it's a tough violent movie, but the story is familiar and predictable. It has a good cast, but it's pretty boring for the most part.

  • Ken S


    Coburn and Bronson together again? Under the direction of Walter Hill? What's not to love?

  • Stella D


    a gritty film about bare knuckle boxing in depression era new orleans. nice atmosphere, coburn is entertaining, and bronson is alright as long as he keeps his mouth shut. strother martin is interesting as the philosophical cut man

  • Lady D


    I have very little to write about this film other than it is dull and boring and very one-dimensional, without much of a story at all.

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