The Survivors

The Survivors
by Michael Ritchie

The Survivors
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Actor: James Wainwright, Jerry Reed, Kristen Vigard, Robin Williams, Walter Matthau
Director: Michael Ritchie
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of The Survivors

Movie Review: A Masterpiece of comedy that went unnoticed.
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of the funniest movies of the 80's. Why it wasn't more popular is a mystery right up there with why a horrible show like "Seindfeld" was so popular and a brilliant comedy like "Titus" was done in 3 seasons.
The scene near the end where Robbin Williams and Jerry Reed are in a shootout in the woods will have you in tears.... Comedy brilliance.

Summary of The Survivors

Two unemployed men become the targets of a hit man whom they disarmed during a robbery attempt in this comic runaway adventure. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2008 Starring: Robin Williams Walter Matthau Run time: 102 minutes Rating: R
At the height of urban paranoia and the birth of survivalist movement in the 1980s, director Michael Ritchie decided to team Robin Williams and Walter Matthau. Talk about an odd couple; yet it actually might have worked, with Matthau's hang-dog deadpan and Williams's manic energy, were it not for a limp script by Michael Leeson. Williams and Matthau play two victims of Reaganomics, unemployed acquaintances who witness a robbery and identify one of the participants to the police, an act that turns them into targets for the robber in question, who comes looking for them. Williams's response: become a one-man arsenal and join a training camp for militant survivalists. But the comedy is neither sharp enough nor sufficiently smart to pull it off; Matthau is the calm center while Williams's comedy rockets all around him, to surprisingly little effect. --Marshall Fine

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