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Southern Comfort

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Southern Comfort

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Action drama starring Keith Carradine and Powers Boothe. Nine National Guardsmen set off on a weekend exercise deep in the treacherous Louisiana swamps. When the men steal canoes from the local Cajuns, a tragic mix-up results in violent death and marks the start of a relentless chase through unforgiving territory.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Adrian Turner

In this action drama, nine National Guardsmen - including Keith Carradine and Powers Boothe - are sent on exercises through the Louisiana swamplands and find themselves drawn into a guerrilla war with the local Cajuns. Set in 1973, Walter Hill's movie is evidently an allegorical treatment of the Vietnam conflict, with the Cajuns cast as the shadowy but lethal Vietcong. But the film's political impulse never amounts to a statement and is in fact a red herring - this is pure American Gothic. Few movies are as single-minded as this one: Hill establishes the bayou as a grey, formless labyrinth and ultimately creates a purely abstract action movie that's creepy, tense and never remotely comfortable.

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7.1/10

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Cast

rolenameSpencerKeith CarradineHardinPowers BootheReeceFred WardSimms Franklyn SealesCribbsT K CarterStuckeyLewis SmithCasperLes LannomPoolePeter CoyoteBowdenAlan AutryTrapperBrion JamesHunterSonny Landham

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rolenameDirectorWalter Hill

Details

Released on

1981-10-29

Languages

English | French

Guidance

Violence, swearing and drug abuse.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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