Advantages: A true feelgood comedy, it has the theme tune to Bonanza in it Disadvantages: American ideals, soppy ending
...the wisecracking man bored with city life, Phil the repressed supermarket manager and Ed the macho man with commitment issues.
There guide through this journey of self discovery is an aging cowboy known as Curly (played perfectly by Jack Palance) who teaches Mitch the simple things in life as well as how to deliver a calf!
So, doesn't sound like much of a comedy does it? Well, it is in the interactions between Mitch, Ed and Phil which add ...
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Advantages: clean humour, back to the old days type of movie Disadvantages: some people may miss the point unless they really get into the show
Nowadays people are just so busy and tied up in their day to day life that we are missing out and aren't happy any more. This movie is a prime example of that and how Billy Crystal's character gets out of that "rut". We are given an example of how most of our lives look,how unhappy, and unfulfilled we might be and what someone does to rectify that problem. A cattle round up is so far from what people even think about anymore but that is where Billy ...
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City Slickers [1990]
Release Date: 2002-03-11, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
City Slickers
Comic genius Billy Crystal (When Harry Met Sally) stars in this hilarious film about
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cowboys careers and mid-life crises. Co-starring Daniel Stern Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance in an Academy Award''-winning role City Slickers is "the rowdiest western jo...