The read
Scores higher than 84% of the 528 1980s thriller movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes81%
Metacritic63/100
370 audience votes
Key crew
- David GilerScreenplay
- Walter HillDirector
- Walter HillScreenplay
- Ry CooderOriginal Music Composer
- Michael KaneScreenplay
Cast
- Keith CarradineSpencer
- Powers BootheHardin
- Fred WardReece
- Franklyn SealesSimms
- T.K. CarterCribbs
- Lewis SmithStuckey
- Les LannomCasper
- Peter CoyotePoole
- Alan AutryBowden
- Brion JamesTrapper
- Sonny LandhamHunter
- Allan GrafHunter
Stills
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Themes
The Best Movies of 1981
Southern Comfort is #35 of 60
