Anne Pitoniak, Annie McEnroe, Bernard Barrow

At the height of urban paranoia and the birth of survivalist movement in the 1980s, director Michael Ritchie decided to team Robin Williams and Walter Matthau. Talk about an odd couple; yet it actuall...( read more  read more... )y might have worked, with Matthau's hang-dog deadpan and Williams's manic energy, were it not for a limp script by Michael Leeson. Williams and Matthau play two victims of Reaganomics, unemployed acquaintances who witness a robbery and identify one of the participants to the police, an act that turns them into targets for the robber in question, who comes looking for them. Williams's response: become a one-man arsenal and join a training camp for militant survivalists. But the comedy is neither sharp enough nor sufficiently smart to pull it off; Matthau is the calm center while Williams's comedy rockets all around him, to surprisingly little effect. --Marshall Fine

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R, 105 min.

Directed by: Michael Ritchie

Release Date: June 22, 1983

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DVD Release Date: April 23, 2002

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  • March 4, 2008
    Some laugh out loud moments. What more were you expecting?
  • July 21, 2009
    i'll remember i saw this film i was an teen about an 1990's. actor robin williams are the greatest funnniest and wild along with walter matthau. i see another starring jerry reed who from "smokey and the bandit" trilogy in it. so this film is hilarious!
  • December 10, 2008
    no thanks not my kinda thing
  • November 20, 2008
    Funny at times....but ultimately disappointing...
  • January 29, 2008
    Would like to see at some stage.
  • January 6, 2008
    Absolutely hilarious... Jerry Reed, Walter Matthau, and Robin Williams play off one another so well. This movie is so much better than it ever got credit for.
  • January 5, 2008
    A classic. The best comedy Robin Williams has ever been in IMO.
  • November 10, 2007
    It's so silly that you can't resist it. I admit, I like it.

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