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Overview

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Director:

Sam Peckinpah

Writers:

Robert Ludlum (novel)
Ian Masters (adaptation)
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Release Date:

14 October 1983 (USA) more

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller more

Tagline:

The one weekend of the year you won't want to miss. more

Plot:

The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a... more | add synopsis

Awards:

2 wins more

NewsDesk:
(3 articles)

Five: Rutger Hauer Films Where He Is Not An Android
 (From LateFilmFull. 12 April 2009, 5:36 PM, PDT)

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 (From TheMovingPicture. 26 March 2009, 9:54 PM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Rutger Hauer ... John Tanner

John Hurt ... Lawrence Fassett

Craig T. Nelson ... Bernard Osterman

Dennis Hopper ... Richard Tremayne

Chris Sarandon ... Joseph Cardone
Meg Foster ... Ali Tanner

Helen Shaver ... Virginia Tremayne
Cassie Yates ... Betty Cardone
Sandy McPeak ... Stennings
Christopher Starr ... Steve Tanner

Burt Lancaster ... Maxwell Danforth

Cheryl Carter ... Marcia Heller

John Bryson ... Honeymoon Groom
Anne Haney ... Honeymoon Bride
Kristen Peckinpah ... Tremayne's Secretary
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Mission CIA (Philippines: English title)
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Runtime:

103 min | USA:116 min (director's cut)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 (2000) | Finland:K-18 (1983) | Norway:15 (re-rating) | Norway:16 (original rating) | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video re-rating) (2004) | UK:18 (original rating) | UK:18 (video rating) (1986) | USA:R (certificate #27156) | West Germany:16 | Australia:M


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Trivia:

According to Jason Robards, Robert Ludlum offered to rewrite the overly complex and confusing script for free, but differences between the producers and director Sam Peckinpah, who'd expressed his concern from the beginning, prevented this from happening. more

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: When Tanner is warning the others to get out of the camper, he writes "Get out now". Richard is reading it aloud as "Get out of the camper now". more

Quotes:

Bernard Osterman: The truth is just a lie that hasn't been found out. more


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7 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
Muddled Misogyny, 7 February 2005
2/10
Author: robertconnor from England

Peckinpah saddled himself with a no-win situation in attempting to make a comeback with The Osterman Weekend. Whilst the Ludlum novel may differ, certainly the screenplay makes the fatal error of asking us to care about a group of thoroughly dislikable characters. Furthermore, once the studio suits began chopping up the finished version, what was merely a tale of unpleasant folks getting what they deserved turned into an incongruous mess. The viewer is introduced to conversations halfway through, characters suddenly completely change their behaviour, and all because scenes were either shortened or cut.

Peckinpah's women are either mothers or whores. Hurt's wife is murdered whilst masturbating, Yates' is a doomed and dim, gum-chewing bubble-head, and Shaver's coke-addled nympho' is so unsympathetic, we can hardly care what happens to her. Only Foster is allowed to keep her breasts off camera, but then again she IS a mother...

Gets two out of ten for Hopper's timidity and Hurt's oiliness. Watch only if you are a Peckinpah completist, otherwise avoid!

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