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City Slickers (Collector's Edition) (1991)

Billy Crystal , Bruno Kirby , Ron Underwood  |  PG-13 |  DVD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (116 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, Jack Palance, Patricia Wettig
  • Directors: Ron Underwood
  • Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Surround)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Dubbed: English, French, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • DVD Release Date: June 3, 2008
  • Run Time: 114 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (116 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00158K0QU
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,807 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Three middle-age buddies (Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby) facing personal crises decide to sign up for a two-week cattle run for a change of pace. The trail proves a tougher place than anyone thought, and the boss (Jack Palance) is a grizzled taskmaster who doesn't cotton to tenderfoot urbanites. Popular in theaters, the film is both funny and moving, with Crystal giving one of his most complete performances and Palance (who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) a lot of colorful fun. Director Ron Underwood (Heart and Souls) subtly shifts the tone of the film from broad comedy to poignancy over its running time, and he makes the story's end a bittersweet victory that feels like life as most people know it. --Tom Keogh

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Comic genius Billy Crystal (When Harry Met Sally) stars in this hilarious film about cowboys, careers and mid-life crises. Co-starring Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance in an Academy AwardÂ(r)-winning* role, City Slickers is "the rowdiest western jokefest since Blazing Saddles" (Rolling Stone). It'll rope you in... and keep you laughing from first frame to last! New Yorker Mitch Robbins (Crystal) is 39 and miserable. He's tired of his job and bored with his life. And his two best friends Ed, (Kirby) and Phil (Stern), aren't doing much better. So when they all decide to chase their troubles away with a fantasy vacation, Mitch and his pals trade their briefcases for saddle bags and set out to find freedom and adventure herding cattle under the wide New Mexico sky. But what they discover instead is scorching sun, sore backsides... and more insight into themselves and each other than they ever thought possible!

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This is a good, funny, clean movie. David M. Upchurch  |  27 reviewers made a similar statement
I have to say there's a lot that I like about the film. Paul Durgala  |  9 reviewers made a similar statement
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Likeable from start to finish! September 1, 2000
By Becky
Format:VHS Tape
Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, and Jack Palance shine in this very funny movie about 3 "City Slickers" who are disillusioned with their lives and decide to participate in a cattle drive from New Mexico to Colorado in order to "find themselves." There aren't many comedies which are relevant to real life, and "City Slickers" is one of them. There aren't many comedies which emphasise the importance of life, love, friendship, humour, and acceptance but again, "City Slickers" is one of them. This is one of those rare diamonds of a film which will make us laugh, make us think, and make us take stock of our own lives. You would be extraordinarily hard to please if you didn't find this movie enjoyable.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By Sanpete
Format:DVD
This new release of City Slickers will have a bunch of new special features:

-- audio commentary from director Ron Underwood and stars Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern (Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance are no longer living)

-- 4 featurettes
. . . "Back in the Saddle: City Slickers Revisited"
. . . "Bringing in the Script: Writing City Slickers"
. . . "A Star is Born: An Ode to Norman" (Norman being the calf Mitch adopts)
. . . "The Real City Slickers"

-- 2 deleted scenes: "Releasing the Herd" and "A New Job"

City Slickers, like most of the comedies I like best, works both as a vehicle for some pretty good humor and as a drama with heart, with something real at stake. Mitch (Billy Crystal) and his two best friends (Daniel Stern and Bruno Kirby) are each having midlife crises in their own ways. In an effort to find themselves they join a two-week dude cattle drive adventure where they do indeed surpass their former boundaries and find more about who they really are. Jack Palance plays Curly, the imposing, tough-as-cowhide, scene-stealing trail boss. The setting allows for endless jokes about cowboys and related matters, as well as some wry comments on human nature. All the principle actors are in top form.

I've always enjoyed this movie and look forward to the new features, especially the commentary. Looks like it will be a worthy special edition. I'd give the movie four or maybe four-and-a-half stars, but I'll round up for the special features.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Drop dead funny August 3, 2003
Format:DVD
These three guys - well, these three city slickers - decide that a 2-week cattle drive is just what each needs to come to terms with their own individual crises - and they get the boss-man from hell, Jack Palance (who won an Oscar for this role). Slapstick in the beginning, it becomes more serious in the middle, then a sentimental wind-down toward a bittersweet ending.
Excellent!
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Poignant Comedy October 29, 2003
Format:VHS Tape
This is one of those great comedies that also speaks to the great truths of life. I have watched this film over and over again and am always left with a wonderful feeling after having watched it. It lifts my spirits when I am low and helps to remind me what is truly important in life.

Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal), Phil Berquist (Daniel Stern) and Ed Furillo (Bruno Kirby) are three friends approaching mid-life at break neck speed. Each year they go on increasingly more dangerous adventures which Mitch's wife (Patricia Wettig) describes as desperate and juvenile attempts to hold on to their youth. When Ed suggests mushing along the trail of Admiral Byrd as a way to top running from bulls in Spain, Mitch is ready to quit the adventure trips and settle into senior life at the ripe old age of 39. After a demotion at his job and a surprise at his birthday party where Phil and his icy wife Arlene (Karla Tamburelli) have a blow out after she learns of his infidelities, Mitch's depression gets the better of his wife who sends him on one more adventure - to find his smile.

And so it is that the trio finds themselves on a cattle drive in the American west with five other lost souls and Curly (Jack Palance) as the cattle boss. Palance is wonderful as the gruff old cowboy who intimidates everyone around him (Mitch:"Kill anyone today, Curly?" Curly: "Day ain't over yet."). Yet he knows the secret to life and relates the cryptic answer to Mitch during the ride. As they drive the cattle and overcome obstacles like stampedes, drunken escapades by the trail hands and their own personal struggles, Mitch comes to realize what Curly's answer means and that it is the only answer he needs to bring the pieces of his life back together.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A Great "Guys" Flick! August 8, 1999
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
This a a terrific "feel-good" movie. What I really like about the film is that it is a "guys" movie without violence - tough to find these days. I've heard a lot of people state that Jack Palance didn't deserve his Oscar for his role as Curly, but I believe that he is extremely convincing playing a cowboy among a group of city-slickers. It must have been tough to remain serious in the presence of Billy Crystal. This is one of Billy Crystal's better films.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars More than it tried to be June 3, 2008
By Joeomar
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Many movies end up being less than they try to be - this one ended up being more. It's described as "the rowdiest western jokefest since Blazing Saddles" which is a terrible injustice. "Saddles" is maybe pretty funny but ultimately it is a meaningless simple comedy. "City Slickers" starts out pretending to be a mindless comedy (the opening credits are played in cartoon format) but ends up being surprisingly serious and even moving in parts. Billy Crystal plays a man experiencing your standard midlife crisis - losing faith in his job, his future, and ultimately in himself. When a vacation at a "Dude Ranch" goes wrong, it causes him to re-think the priorities in his life. This is also the rare movie that explores male friendship realistically in the relationship between the characters played by Crystal, Bruno Kirby, and Daniel Stern. No sloppy "tearful-hugging" crap - just three guys who've been buddies since childhood. Plus the added bonus is, this really is one funny movie - the birthday party, the incident with the coffee bean grinder, the time Crystal's character tries to help Stern's character with his "inadequacy" (although now rather dated), etc, etc. This movie was seriously underrated probably because of the way it was marketed (Blazing Saddles? This is NOT a Blazing Saddles- style movie). Overall a very fine movie.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Billy Crystal is always great
As always, a great entertaining movie that is good for all. Enjoyed then, enjoyed it now. Delivered its message with humor
Published 8 days ago by The Rev
5.0 out of 5 stars its Billy
You cant go wrong its funny, touching, and adventure. good ole just fun, its a 90's classic. Jack Palance is great
Published 12 days ago by europa
5.0 out of 5 stars FUN MOVIE
Billy Crystal is a hoot. Have always loved this movie and enjoyed watching again in Blu Ray. A great light hearted movie.
Published 15 days ago by Lori
2.0 out of 5 stars Smarmy -
Sight gags, one-liners, overdone male bonding, and highly predictable outcomes make this silly two-hour film about three professional guys' midlife crises really hard to sit... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Loyd E. Eskildson
5.0 out of 5 stars Oldie and a goodie
I loved it long ago and the grandkids loved it now. We laughed ourselves silly. Not too racy or bad words.
Published 1 month ago by Betty Bird
5.0 out of 5 stars City Slickers
What a great movie. Everyone in the cast was exceptional in their part. Just had to add it to my collection.
Published 1 month ago by Harry Yohe
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie
If you haven't seen it and you like to laugh, you need this movie. This is an oldie, but a goodie.
Published 1 month ago by Susan Hintze
5.0 out of 5 stars Feel good movie
I love this movie. Its one that I watch over and over. A must see for any one. Drop it into the DVD player and enjoy.
Published 1 month ago by Hope Baird
5.0 out of 5 stars fun
Good to watch for fun. Lots of humor. About being in the country and finding it a very different life with bllue skies and openness for freedom.
Published 2 months ago by Marcia L. Howland
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic
Good family movie where there is adult humor that goes over their heads. Very funny and well done with some life lessons and touching moments.
Published 2 months ago by DJK
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