The Survivors
by Michael Ritchie
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Actor: James Wainwright, Jerry Reed, Kristen Vigard, Robin Williams, Walter MatthauDirector: 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: RAt 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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