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69% Critic Match
Southern Comfort
“It's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong there.”
6.9 / 10• 1981• 1h 46m•R• English
ThrillerAction
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Keith Carradine
Spencer
Lead
Powers Boothe
Hardin
Fred Ward
Reece
Franklyn Seales
Simms
T.K. Carter
Cribbs
Lewis Smith
Stuckey
Les Lannom
Casper
Peter Coyote
Poole
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Walter Hill's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Southern Comfort is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
