ComedyWestern

City Slickers

- Yesterday they were businessmen. Today they're cowboys. Tomorrow they'll be walking funny.

Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

Release Date : 1991-06-07

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Castle Rock EntertainmentNelson EntertainmentFace ProductionsColumbia Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Mitch Robbins

Original Name : Billy Crystal

Gender : Male

Character Name : Phil Berquist

Original Name : Daniel Stern

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ed Furillo

Original Name : Bruno Kirby

Gender : Male

Character Name : Barbara Robbins

Original Name : Patricia Wettig

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bonnie Rayburn

Original Name : Helen Slater

Gender : Female

Character Name : Holly Robbins

Original Name : Lindsay Crystal

Gender : Female

Character Name : Clay Stone

Original Name : Noble Willingham

Gender : Male

Character Name : Curly Washburn

Original Name : Jack Palance

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cookie

Original Name : Tracey Walter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Barry Shalowitz

Original Name : Josh Mostel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ira Shalowitz

Original Name : David Paymer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ben Jessup

Original Name : Bill Henderson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Steve Jessup

Original Name : Phill Lewis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Danny Robbins

Original Name : Jake Gyllenhaal

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lou

Original Name : Jeffrey Tambor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jeff

Original Name : Kyle Secor

Gender : Male

Character Name : T.R.

Original Name : Dean Hallo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Arlene Berquist

Original Name : Karla Tamburrelli

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nancy

Original Name : Yeardley Smith

Gender : Female

Character Name : Sal

Original Name : Robert Costanzo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kim Furillo

Original Name : Walker Brandt

Gender : Female

Character Name : Millie Stone

Original Name : Molly McClure

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs. Green

Original Name : Jane Alden

Gender : Male

Character Name : Classroom Student

Original Name : Danielle Harris

Gender : Female

Character Name : Classroom Student

Original Name : Eddie Palmer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Skycap

Original Name : Howard Honig

Gender : Male

Character Name : Doctor

Original Name : Fred Maio

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mitch's Mom

Original Name : Jayne Meadows

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mitch's Dad

Original Name : Alan Charof

Gender : Male

Character Name : Businessman (uncredited)

Original Name : JJ Azan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ranch Hand / Passenger (uncredited)

Original Name : Anne Lockhart

Gender : Female

Character Name : Boy (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert Mickelson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Student in Classroom (uncredited)

Original Name : Lana Underwood

Gender : Female

Reviews

Peter McGinn

@narrator56

2021-06-23

This is is a fairly funny movie. Billy Crystal’s character and two friends head out for a dude ranch for an adventure vacation. The jokes come vast and furious as do the sight gags. Jack Palance made a bit of a name for himself with his cowboy antics and one-armed pushups. My favorite scene had nothing to do with dude ranch stuff. Mitch (Crystal) is explaining how a DVD recorder doesn’t even require the tv to record a show, and his friend just isn’t getting it. It’s hilarious. This isn’t a movie classic or anything, but plenty entertaining enough.

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2025-01-17

As their fortieth birthdays loom large and illustrate to "Mitch" (Billy Crystal), "Ed" (Bruno Kirby) and "Phil" (Daniel Stern) that their high-powered city jobs are ultimately quite unfulfilling, they decide to take up the challenge of herding some cows from Mexico up to Colorado. Completely unused to the wilderness, or indeed to anything without air-conditioning and comfort, they are put under the charge of the gnarly "Curly" (Jack Palance) who's disdain for this hapless trio is fairly clear from the outset. What chance they can adapt their city attitudes to cope with all that nature can throw at them? Well on that front there's not the slightest bit of jeopardy, it's all about their "journey". There, I think it will all depend on whether or not you like Billy Crystal's style of semi-slapstick comedy. I don't really and so wasn't particularly engaged as this sort of merged John Wayne with Laurel and Hardy. Palance looks like he's enjoying himself, and easily steals the show with his facial expressions conveying just as much as the rather predictable script. Stern also delivers quite entertainingly as they battle with the cattle and the snakes that rattle amidst some stunning New Mexico scenery that sets up the story perfectly. It's a story about recalibrating life and on that score it sends quite a powerful message about people stopping every now and again to appreciate what they had/have and to take stock of what they want to come next. That thrust epitomises the difference between the urban and the rural, their population's who do and those who talk about doing quite well - but the humour was just all bit lame for me and the whole thing takes too long to finish where I always thought it would.