The Survivors (1983)

Voti degli utenti:

5.6/10   

Regista:

Michael Ritchie

Sceneggiatore:

Michael Leeson (written by)

Data di uscita:

16 febbraio 1984 (Australia)

Genere:

Commedia | Drammatico

Slogan:

Once they declare war on each other, watch out. You could die laughing.

Plot:

Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.

Plot Keywords:

Gas Station | Secret Life | Unemployment | Robbery | Jimmy Hoffa

Recensioni degli utenti:

Funny..period

Cast

Walter Matthau	...	Sonny Paluso
Robin Williams	...	Donald Quinelle
Jerry Reed	...	Jack Locke
James Wainwright	...	Wes Huntley
Kristen Vigard	...	Candice Paluso
Annie McEnroe	...	Doreen
Anne Pitoniak	...	Betty
Bernard Barrow	...	TV station manager
Marian Hailey	...	Jack's Wife
Joseph Carberry	...	Detective Matt Burke
Skipp Lynch	...	Wiley
Marilyn Cooper	...	Waitress
Meg Mundy	...	Mace Lover
Yudie Bank	...	Accosted Old Lady
Michael P. Moran	...	Gun Salesman (as Michael Moran)

Alias:

Come ti ammazzo un killer (Italy) [it]

Durata:

103 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese | Spagnolo

Colore:

Colore (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonoro:

Mono

Divieti:

Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | Iceland:L | Sweden:15 | Australia:M | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16

Luoghi riprese:

Fairlee, Vermont, USA

Compagnia:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Curiosità:

When Sonny Paluso (Walter Matthau) is trying to obtain unemployment benefits, sitting directly over his left shoulder is the bad guy Jack Locke (Jerry Reed) doing the same thing.

Errori:

Continuità: During the robbery scene, the hammer on Jack’s pistol alternates from being cocked and uncocked before he pulls the slide back.

Citazioni:

Donald: You shot my gun god damn it! You're not supposed to shoot a person's gun! Oh, now that pisses me off! You know how much one of these cost?

Collegamenti:

Citato in Saturday Night Live: The Best of Robin Williams (1991) (V)

Colonna sonora:

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Funny..period

This is a very funny movie. This is an American comedy classic! Period. I dunno what that guy's talking' about. I buy the DVD, lend it and never get it back (so I have to buy it again). There are more great one-liners in this movie than you can shake a stick at. for example: Walter Matthau "Donald, are you okay?" Donald (Robin Williams) holding a hand gun laying on the ground. "Yeah I'm okay, but I think I killed your tree." Or what about this: Donald at the end of a long line at the unemployment office addressing a seemingly dignified elderly woman "Excuse madam, would you mind if I cut in?" "Oh no, not at all, if you don't mind me biting off your nose and sticking it up your ass." See, that's what I mean-outta left field, who-saw-that-one-coming writing. Robin Williams has never been funnier in a movie. What else can you say about a movie featuring luxury survival condos in upstate New York for Heaven's sake? "We'll be hanging on to the rim here when the toilet of society gets the Big Flush." And don't get me started on the Jerry Reed-the bad guy hit-man "I place a very high value on human life-$25,000." Okay, okay-in some highfalutin, grand sense, this movie has no point-none. When, and why, did humor have to have some meaning beyond itself? Who keeps poisoning the comedy well? Oh wait... Doug Chaz sez check it out.