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- Directed by: Ron Underwood
- Produced by: Billy Crystal, Irby Smith
- Starring: Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater and Jack Palance
- Distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- Release date: June 7, 1991
- Running time: 112 minutes
- MPAA Rating: PG-13
- Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating: 92%
- Inspired by John Wayne's Red River
- U.S. box office: $119,828,215
- French title: La Vie, L'Amour, Les Vaches (Life, Love, Cows)
- Written by: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
- Tagline: Yesterday They Were Businessmen. Today They're Cowboys. Tomorrow They'll Be Walking Funny.
- Jake Gyllenhaal's film debut at age 11
- One sequel: City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold was released June 10, 1994
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City Slickers is comedy film about a man going through a mid-life crisis who goes on a two-week cattle drive with his two best friends. Jack Palance won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as weathered cowboy Curly.
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City Slickers Plot
At Mitch's (Billy Crystal) 39th birthday party, his friends Ed, played by Bruno Kirby and Phil, played by Daniel Stern, give him two weeks on a dude ranch in New Mexico. They will learn how to be cowboys, then wrangle a herd into Colorado. Mitch, Ed and Phil are all dealing with mid life issues, and once among the horses and cattle they get off to a rocky start. After Mitch forms a tentative friendship with grizzled cow poke Curly (Jack Palance), the three friends are able to find their inner strength and band together to bring in the herd. -
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City Slickers Questions
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