Star 80

Star 80 (1983)

  • 89% of critics liked it
    (9 reviews)

  • 62% of users liked it
    (3,128 ratings)

Director Bob Fosse's fact-based tale of Playboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten's short life and gruesome death focuses less on Stratten (played by Mariel Hemingway) than on her husband/manager, sleazoid pornographer and all-around failure Paul Snider (Eric Roberts, ideally cast). He sees the young… More

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R, 1 hr. 44 min.
Directed By
Bob Fosse
Written By
Bob Fosse
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Nov 10, 1983 Wide
On DVD
Nov 10, 1998
Warner Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Jon Niccum, Lawrence Journal-World

    A truly disturbing performance by Eric Roberts

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Melvin W


    Snider: Well, you can take your magazine, your mansion and your movies and shove'em all up your ass. Star 80 is an amazing look at the celebrity life style and how it can affect a relationship. Eric Roberts and especially Merial Hemingway give fantastic performances. Roberts… More

  • Ken S


    Bob Fosse's Boogie Nights. Eric Roberts gives a fantastic psychopathic performance in this heavy drama by the master director.

  • Dean M


    A depressing, uncompromising, but brilliantly filmed and acted portrait of a tragedy. Mariel Hemingway stars as Dorothy Stratten, the Playboy playmate of the year who was murdered in 1980 by her estranged husband (an equally impressive portrayal by Eric Roberts) she had outgrown. The… More

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