Stay Hungry is a 1976 comedy film by director Bob Rafelson out of a screenplay by Charles Gaines. The story focuses on a young Birmingham, Alabama, scion, played by Jeff Bridges, who gets involved in a dishonest real estate deal. In order to close the bargain, he needs to get a fitness center construction to complete a lot. After he visits the gymnasium, howeverhe finds himself interested at the receptionist (Sally Field) and attracted into the carefree life style of this body builder"Joe Santo" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who's training there for the Mr. Universe competition.