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1981

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A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience. Read more

Starring	Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, T.K. Carter
Director	Walter Hill
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller

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Southern Comfort

Starring	Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, T.K. Carter, Peter Coyote, Lewis Smith, Franklyn Seales
Director	Walter Hill
Studio	ELEVATION SALES
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 47 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1981 To Rent: DVD: 15 Jan 2001

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- "...Hill provides a reassuring reminder of the popular cinema's continuing capacity for relevant self-renewal....An unshowy originality that conveys a bracing shock of pleasure..."
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- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
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  Excellent rarely seen movie
  
  If people had any wits about them whatsoever, this movie would be up there with other classics of the late seventies/early eighties, be listed on top 100 lists... read more »
  
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  - 25 Aug 2005 at 10:08
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  Uncomfortable happenings in Southern Comfort.
  
  A great film combining horror, thriller, drama and war. An absolute classic of a film, somewhat a cult classic. This film really should be watched by a wider ... read more »
  
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  - 31 Oct 2011 at 19:21
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  One Of My Favourites
  
  I don't think a lot of people have heard of this film.
  
  I am a huge fan of Deliverence and Predator which I liken it to.
  
  I stumbled ... read more »
  
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  - Sheffield
  - 21 Mar 2010 at 20:54
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  Very Good
  
  Arguably Walter Hill's best film, and certainly a more mature movie than some of his comic-book or excessive ones. When he stops trying to match his hero, ... read more »
  
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  A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience....