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Southern Comfort

1981 · 106 min

A sweaty, nerve-shredding chase through hostile swamp country where every wrong turn tightens the trap.

Directed by
Walter Hill
Genres
Thriller, Action
Starring
Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward
Tagline
It's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong there.
Overview
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.

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Directed by
Walter Hill
Genres
Thriller, Action
Starring
Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward
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    Pacing
    relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • survival
    • violence
    • isolation
    • betrayal
    • guilt
    Places
    • wilderness
    • countryside
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore strong
    • Language strong
    • Violence strong
    • Sex mild
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    Action8
    Horror6
    Humour1
    Realism8
    Romance0
    Tension9
    Darkness8
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight7

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    Genres
    thriller, action
    Directed by
    Walter Hill
    Written by
    Michael Kane, Walter Hill, David Giler
    Starring
    Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter, Lewis Smith, Les Lannom, Peter Coyote
    Music
    Ry Cooder
    Cinematography
    Andrew Laszlo
    Runtime
    106 min
    Country
    United States of America
    Languages
    French, English

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