Southern Comfort (1981)
- Directed by
- Walter Hill
- Genre
- action film, war film, thriller film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 361 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A squad of nine soldiers on weekend maneuvers in the Louisiana bayou antagonizes local Cajun people. The locals turn the tables and hunt the soldiers through the swamp.
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What happens
Southern Comfort is a 1981 American independent Southern Gothic thriller film directed by Walter Hill and written by Michael Kane, Hill and his longtime collaborator David Giler. It stars Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, T. K. Carter, Franklyn Seales and Peter Coyote. The film, set in 1973, features a Louisiana Army National Guard squad of nine from an infantry unit on weekend maneuvers in rural bayou country as they antagonize some local Cajun people and become hunted. Filming took place during a 55-day period in the Caddo Lake bayou in the states of Louisiana and Texas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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