City Slickers

Starring:Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater, Jack Palance, Noble Willingham, Tracey Walter, Josh Mostel, David Paymer, Bill Henderson, Jeffrey Tambor, Phill Lewis, Kyle Secor, Dean Hallo, Karla Tamburrelli, Yeardley Smith, Robert Costanzo, Walker Brandt, Molly McClure
Director: Ron Underwood
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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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 frameto last! New Yorker Mitch Robbins (Crystal) is 39 and miserable. He's tired of his job andbored 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 saddlebags and set out to find freedom and adventure herding cattle underthe wide New Mexico sky. But what they discover instead is scorching sun, sore backsides...and moreinsight into themselvesand each otherthan they ever thought possible! *1991: Supporting Actor

Customer Reviews:

In Appreciation of Bruno Kirby.......2006-09-17

Bruno Kirby passed away not too long ago...wow...it really kind of blew me away...he was so young and talented and still had so much to offer the world. But we must not be overly sad at his death, we must know and feel that even now the life that Bruno Kirby was/is/and will always be is doing even greater things...

I love this movie. I watch this movie every time I'm in the "dumps". No matter how much my life has improved over the years, there are those days where I just don't feel I'm doing enough. I don't think this makes me "nagative" as much as it means that I am human. The whole reason why we don't think our life is living up to our expectations is because deep within our soul, we know that we have EVEN MORE to express, extend, and experience...

This movie especially moves me now because I am in my early 40s. When I first saw it, I thought it was funny, but I couldn't totally relate to it. I thought that I was eons away from becoming 40. (It gets here sooner than you realize, kid...) I mean, I remember when my dad turned 40 and I could never get as old as my dad!

Yeah, okay...dream on...

This movie will make you look at life differently, that is, if you are willing to look at life differently. If you just go into it thinking it's just going to be a funny movie with Bruno Kirby and Billy Crystal and Daniel Stearn, then that is just what you'll get, but if you go into it with a willingness to see it as a metaphor for life, you will get this as well.

Y'see, everyone talks about women going through the change of life...men go through a change, as well. But as a rule, we don't talk about things like that. Men are always supposed to be stoic and strong and able to leap tall buildings with a single bound...not true...we are not made of steel...we are made of bone and blood and muscle...we are bound by the same laws as everyone else and sometimes, we feel even more pressure to become something or do something big and when we haven't made the deadline or scored the touchdown or hit the home run by the time we thought we would, we feel like even more of a failure.

But just like the movie suggests, Life is a "do over". We can decide today to begin again. To shake the dust of our butts and get right back in the saddle.

YEEEEE-HAAAAAA!

Oh, life is good people...life is good! Thank you, Bruno Kirby for making this movie part of our document to human history.

"You eat lunch at 10. You eat dinner at 2:30. You eat breakfast the day before.".......2006-08-19

I saw this movie about 11 years ago when I was 10. I had forgotten how funny it truely was. My mother wanted to rent it to let my step brother and sister watch it. I laughed the whole time. What the movie is about is 3 guys are fereling bad about there age so one of them sets a trip up. On the trip they are driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. Along the way many things happen that helps them realize just how strong they are. I laughed so many times at this movie. Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern are great. This is a movie anyone will easly be able to enjoy.

City Slickers.......2006-07-01

I love Billy Crystal anyway and thought this was a great movie.
As always he kept me laughing. I love it when people are in places that are out of their element and it was a very funny and enjoyable movie.

Really Funny.......2006-06-01

This is the movie I watch when I am a little depressed, or just need to laugh for awhile. It never fails to cheer me up. It is one of my go-to movies.

Quality movie, clean humor for the most part, and a good plot. The contrast of the main characters is really good and gives the movie its edge.

This is not Dumb and Dumber type humor, it is intelligent humor, for lack of a better term. There is no way you can watch this movie and not enjoy it. Highly recommended.

He's Not the Father!.......2006-04-15

CITY SLICKERS holds the secret to life, and gives it up to viewers with plenty of laughs. What I mean is, it's funny, but it's not slap-stick. The story stays with me to this day because it portrays the problems of your average joe-shmoe and gives an overly simplified, but right answer to living a joe-shmoe life.

It has a little bit of run-down urban life, a little bit of the wild, wild west, and a lot of Billy Crystal doing what he does best while giving birth to a calf (turns out he's not the father--he's the mom).

City Slickers 2 - The Legend of Curly's Gold

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One of the better sequels
Awesome movie!!!
Great movie!
Clueless-But Funny Characters
"What do you think of that, Spanky?"

City Slickers 2 - The Legend of Curly's Gold
Starring: Billy Crystal , Daniel Stern , Jon Lovitz , Jack Palance , and Patricia Wettig
Director: Paul Weiland
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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Urban cowboy Mitch Robbins, played by Billy Crystal, is at it again in this adventure-comedy film. After discovering a treasure map in the band of Curly's hat, he and his good pal Phil (Daniel Stern) and his mooching brother (Jon Lovitz) set out on an adventure to find the lost treasure. Jack Palance co-stars. Year: 1994 Director: Paul Weiland Starring: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, Jack Palace

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One of the better sequels.......2007-06-11

Sequels are often lame imitations of the original, but City Slickers 2 keeps the atmosphere and much of the chemistry of City Slickers 1. The acting is excellent, especially Jack Palance (as usual). The "Indiana Jones" mine ride is a bit corny, but after all, the storyline is a fantasy anyway! If you enjoyed the first one, you will like City Slickers 2. The video and sound quality on this sequel is somewhat superior to the first one.

Awesome movie!!!.......2006-09-17

I actually saw this movie before I saw the first one. I loved it so much though! It is really a funny movie and the cast is phenominal! I was a little disapointed that Bruno Kirby wasn't in this one but the character Glen soon replaced that. Its a really awesome movie and should be watched again and again and again...

Great movie!.......2006-05-29

I have seen this movie on HBO and it is cool!Rated PG-13 for a comic sex scene and off-color humor.

Clueless-But Funny Characters.......2006-04-29

I don't have a problem with sequels because many times I find them more appealing than the original. This is another example, although not a wide margin. The first was good; this is a little better.

Despite being almost two hours which is long for a comedy, this moves very fast. That's the selling point of the movie: it's entertaining. Not only do you get a comedy with a lot of laughs, you get brilliant Western scenery enhanced by the widescreen DVD.

The negatives, at least for me, was the all-too-secular outlook on life and an obsession with sex espoused by lead actor Billy Crystal and his clueless buddies Daniel Stern and Jon Lovitz and the unnecessary profanity by Jack Palance.

All the characters, however, are definitely fun to watch and there is a good message in the end about sacrificing for friends and relatives. The story also features a very neat twist at the end. This is a film you can laugh at with multiple viewings.

"What do you think of that, Spanky?".......2006-03-16

Here comes . . . something different.

In the first city slickers, you are introduced to mitch who is a buisness man trying to do something different with his life and joins a cattle drive with his friends. Along the way he learns about life and morals from his cattle drive buddy Curly. Unfortuneatly, he died during the cattle drive and had to be buried by his friends.

Fast foward a year later.

After realizing that he's now forty, he decides to have no surprises on his birthday but gets one very big one instead: A map in Curly's hat that was given to him.

A treasure map from the 1900's to be exact.

And what's more surprising is the fact that Curly, although he was buried for a year, might still be alive.

This is a great sequel. A different pace, mood, setting, theme, everything. That's what you gotta do with a sequel; try something different.

I loved watching mitch and his buddies figure out the clues while battling claim jumpers and avoiding dangerous territory.

There's gold in them there hills . . . and Curly's buddies are just the ones to find it.

Enjoy!

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Starring: Billy Crystal , Daniel Stern , Bruno Kirby , Patricia Wettig , and Helen Slater
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Customer Reviews:

In Appreciation of Bruno Kirby.......2006-09-17

"You eat lunch at 10. You eat dinner at 2:30. You eat breakfast the day before.".......2006-08-19

City Slickers.......2006-07-01

Really Funny.......2006-06-01

He's Not the Father!.......2006-04-15

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This DVD collection contains six hits that everyone loves to quote, including: Bull Durham, When Harry Met Sally, The Terminator, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, City Slickers, and Rain Man.

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