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City Slickers (1991)

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City Slickers blends sight gags, one-liners, and sincerity, with both humor and drama arising from the characters and their situations. Mitch (Billy Crystal) is a radio station sales executive who finds himself in the throes of a mid-life crisis; accompanied by two friends, Phil (Daniel Stern) and Ed (Bruno Kirby) in the grip of similar problems, he heads to New Mexico for his birthday to participate in a two-week "vacation" cattle drive to Colorado. The three friends and the rest of their

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Western, Comedy

Feb 4, 1999

Columbia Pictures

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Critic Reviews for City Slickers

All Critics (39) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (3) | DVD (11)

Thankfully, Crystal is more than willing to hog the screen with his whining, impressions, and glorious chemistry with Palance, whose entire performance is based around inconsistent levels of exhaling.

June 9, 2011 Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

Lassos midlife-crisis laughs; teens and up.

December 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Heather Boerner
Common Sense Media

ultimately harmless

June 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

A different way of tackling the sons-and-fathers story, but right up there with the best of them--and a tremendous western comedy as well.

June 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
Slant Magazine

A comedy that was and is ambitious and counterintuitive.

June 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
Slant Magazine

The movie begins as a mildly amusing comedy about spoiled city brats taking a cattle drive before turning into a serio and predictable tale about mid-life crisis and male camaraderie.

June 30, 2005 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

silly entertainment

June 28, 2005
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Somehow it never gets old.

June 8, 2004
Sarah Chauncey
Reel.com

I found almost nothing funny about this film. Palance's performance saved it.

November 5, 2003
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

Good fun.

July 6, 2003
Gerry Shamray
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
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An absolute classic that's too corny once in a while, but only because it's playing with conventions of the cowboy genre (baked beans, singalongs, cattle drives, Jack Palance, etc.). Billy Crystal is not one of my favourite actors, but we see a real growth in him as he pulls himself out of a midlife crisis along with his two lifelong best friends on a two-week trip during which they take a herd of cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. A real "Guy Movie," in a sense, and Jack Palance as Curly - same nickname as the violent rancher in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, by the way - fully deserved his Best Supporting Actor Oscar, walking the line between playing it straight and completely camping it up. Great, fun film, highly recommend.
May 9, 2007
danperry17
Daniel Perry

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Three friends in a mid-life crisis goes on a Wild West adventure together, to re-ignite their lost passions for life. This isn't really a Western movie in the classic sense though, but more like a fish-out-of-water comedy, with influences from said genre. It does have the same feel of one, however, and is one of the most enjoyable films of its kind. Billy Crystal is hilarious with his sarcasm and cynical sense of humor, and together with Daniel Stern and Bruno Kirby they make up a really fun trio. You'll also find Jake Gyllenhaal in a very young role here. Not to mention Jack Palance, who is very memorable as Curly Washburn - an old legendary cowboy who oozes intimidation. If there was ever a contest for most bad-ass cowboy in cinema, it would be a close race between him and Clint Eastwood. Long story short: a highly entertaining movie, and one of my all-time favourite Westerns.
May 14, 2007
CloudStrife84
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City Slickers Quotes

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    1. Mitch Robbins: [talking about Curly] He's like a saddlebag with eyes. He's a lunatic. We are going into the woods being led by a lunatic...He's behind me, isn't he?
    – Submitted by Jared B (8 months ago)
    1. Cookie: Lord, we give you Curly. Try not to piss him off.
    – Submitted by Cody H (8 months ago)
    1. Daniel Robbins: If you're going to kill me, get on with it. If not...shut the hell up..I'm on vacation.
    – Submitted by Jared B (9 months ago)
    1. Curly: [to Mitch] I crap bigger than you.
    – Submitted by Josh B (9 months ago)
    1. Mitch Robbins: Hi, Curly, kill anyone today?
    2. Curly: Day ain't over yet.
    – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

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