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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Questionable for Children, Profanity, Western Violence Movie Release: 1991 DVD Release: 05/08/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 54 mins Studio: MGM Total Copies: 4 Genres: Comedy Drama, Adventure Comedy, Comedy Western, Buddy Film See Also: City Slickers [Collector's Edition]

City Slickers blends sight gags, one-liners, and sincerity, with both humor and drama arising from the characters and their situations. Mitch (Billy Crystal) is a radio station sales executive who finds himself in the throes of a mid-life crisis; accompanied by two friends, Phil (Daniel Stern) and Ed (Bruno Kirby) in the grip of similar problems, he heads to New Mexico for his birthday to participate in a two-week "vacation" cattle drive to Colorado. The three friends and the rest of their group, including an attractive, newly single young woman and two African-American dentists, are all urbanites lost when it comes to herding cattle and surviving on the prairie; it's up to authentic, almost mythic cowboy Curly (Jack Palance, who won an Oscar for the role), to whip them into shape. As various adventures occur along the way, including run-ins with outlaw cattlehands, treacherous natural mishaps, and Mitch's delivery of a newborn calf, the three "city slickers" open up to each other, learn to appreciate Curly's Old West values, and begin to resolve their midlife dilemmas. When Curly dies, it's left to Mitch, Phil, and Ed to bring in the herd. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide

Billy Crystal - Mitch Robbins
Daniel Stern - Phil Berquist
Bruno Kirby - Ed Furillo
Patricia Wettig - Barbara Robbins
Helen Slater - Bonnie Rayburn

Billy Crystal enjoyed one of his biggest hits with this East-meets-West comedy, which has been issued on DVD in a solid if unremarkable package. City Slickers has been given a letterboxed transfer, with the image formatted at a 1.85:1 aspect ratio; the transfer as also been enhanced for playback on widescreen televisions. The audio is presented in a Dolby Digital Surround mix, with an alternate French language track in Dolby Digital Mono. The feature is closed-captioned in English, and has been encoded with optional subtitles in Spanish and French. The only bonus feature is the film's original theatrical trailer, but the improved quality of this DVD will make it a worthwhile purchase for Crystal's many fans. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide