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Plot summary
Howard Polk, a Texas ranch owner and Mike Milo's former boss, pays Mike to go to Mexico City and fetch Polk's fifteen-year-old son, Rafo, and bring the boy to live with him. Mike, a rodeo star forced to retire by a back injury, accepts. Leta, Rafo's mother, runs several illicit businesses in the city and has blocked Polk's earlier attempts. She acts agreeable while telling Mike that Rafo has taken up crime, fighting roosters with his bird, Macho. Mike finds Rafo at one of those cockfights, which a police raid breaks up, and makes his offer. Curious about his father despite his doubts, Rafo agrees to come, and Leta, learning they are leaving, turns hostile and warns Mike against going further.
Cast
- Amber Lynn Ashleyas Hippie Girl
- Sebestien Solizas Worker
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cry Macho (2021)
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- Arnold Schwarzenegger had planned Cry Macho as his first film after serving as governor of California, with Brad Furman directing, but the project was canceled after his divorce from Maria Shriver.
- N. Richard Nash's Cry Macho began as a screenplay that 20th Century Fox rejected twice in the 1970s; he turned it into a novel published in 1975, then sold the screenplay again without changing a word.
- Clint Eastwood said filming scenes with Macho, the rooster, was one of the shoot's difficulties because the bird was played by 11 different animals.
- Producer Albert S. Ruddy offered the lead to Clint Eastwood in 1988, and Eastwood declined and suggested Robert Mitchum; a 1991 adaptation starring Roy Scheider began filming in Mexico but was never completed.
- Cry Macho was the first film in which Clint Eastwood rode a horse since Unforgiven in 1992, and Eastwood said the wrangler was "worried" about it.
