Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort

6.9IMDb Score
Released:1981-09-24
Duration:106 min
Director:Walter Hill
Actors:Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter
Production:Cinema Group Ventures, Phoenix (II), 20th Century Fox

Overview:

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.

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