Southern Comfort (1981)
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It's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong there.
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.
- Released: 1981-09-24
- Genres: Thriller, Action
- Runtime: 1h 46m
- Status: Released
- TMDB rating: 6.8/10 from 377 votes
Directed by Walter Hill.
Top cast
- Keith Carradine as Spencer
- Powers Boothe as Hardin
- Fred Ward as Reece
- Franklyn Seales as Simms
- T.K. Carter as Cribbs
- Lewis Smith as Stuckey
- Les Lannom as Casper
- Peter Coyote as Poole
- Alan Autry as Bowden
- Brion James as Trapper
Where to watch Southern Comfort
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- United Kingdom: watch free on YouTube Free; rent on Amazon Video; buy on Amazon Video
- Canada: stream on Amazon Prime Video, Crave, Amazon Prime Video with Ads; watch free on Hoopla; rent on Apple TV Store; buy on Apple TV Store
- Australia: stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads; watch free on Hoopla; rent on Amazon Video; buy on Amazon Video
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