City Slickers (Collector's Edition)

Buy This Item City Slickers (Collector's Edition) by MGM (Video & DVD)  Available from Amazon  $11.19  on 11-24-2008     Comic genius Billy Crystal (When Harry Met Sally) stars in this hilarious film about cowboys careers and mid-life crises. Co-starring Daniel Stern Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance in an Academy Award®-winning* role City Slickers is "the rowdiest western jokefest since Blazing Saddles" (Rolling Stone). It'll rope you in and keep you laughing from first frame to last! New Yorker Mitch Robbins (Crystal) is 39 and miserable. He's tired of his job and bored with his life. And his two best friends Ed (Kirby) and Phil (Stern) aren't doing much better. So when they all decide to chase their troubles away with a fantasy vacation Mitch and his pals trade their briefcases for saddle bags and set out to find freedom and adventure herding cattle under the wide New Mexico sky. But what they discover instead is scorching sun sore backsides and more insight into themselves and each other than they ever thought possible!System Requirements:Running Time: 112 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/COMING OF AGE Rating: PG-13 UPC: 883904107828 Manufacturer No: M110782 Reader Reviews This new release of City Slickers will have a bunch of new special features: -- audio commentary from director Ron Underwood and stars Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern (Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance are no longer living) -- 4 featurettes . . . "Back in the Saddle: City Slickers Revisited" . . . "Bringing in the Script: Writing City Slickers" . . . "A Star is Born: An Ode to Norman" (Norman being the calf Mitch adopts) . . . "The Real City Slickers" -- 2 deleted scenes: "Releasing the Herd" and "A New Job" City Slickers, like most of the comedies I like best, works both as a vehicle for some pretty good humor and as a drama with heart, with something real at stake. Mitch (Billy Crystal) and his two best friends (Daniel Stern and Bruno Kirby) are each having midlife crises in their own ways. In an effort to find themselves they join a two-week dude cattle drive adventure where they do indeed surpass their former boundaries and find more about who they really are. Jack Palance plays Curly, the imposing, tough-as-cowhide, scene-stealing trail boss. The setting allows for endless jokes about cowboys and related matters, as well as some wry comments on human nature. All the principle actors are in top form. I've always enjoyed this movie and look forward to the new features, especially the commentary. Looks like it will be a worthy special edition. I'd give the movie four or maybe four-and-a-half stars, but I'll round up for the special features.

City Slickers (Collector's Edition) Available from Amazon Price: $11.19 Updated on 11-24-2008.

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