The Osterman Weekend (Blu-ray) R
The one weekend of the year you won't want to miss.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 19, 2015
- Originally Released: 1983
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rutger Hauer & John Hurt | |
Performer: | Dennis Hopper, Craig T. Nelson, Chris Sarandon, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver & Burt Lancaster | |
Directed by | Sam Peckinpah | |
Edited by | Edward Abroms & David Rawlins | |
Screenwriting by | Alan Sharp | |
Original story by | Robert Ludlum | |
Composition by | Lalo Schifrin | |
Cinematography by | John Coquillon | |
Produced by | Peter S. Davis & William Panzer |
Entertainment Reviews:
Sam Peckinpah's movie of the Robert Ludlum novel, The Osterman Weekend, must be the most incoherent, inexplicable, muddled film made this year.
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Gannett News Service
Rating: B --
A wild ride into Cold War paranoia and the dangers of technocracy.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Despite some script contrivances, it finds Peckinpah high in the saddle again and full of the same old thunder and lightning.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 1/4 --
I don't demand that all movies make sense. I sometimes enjoy movies that make no sense whatsoever, if that's their intention. But a thriller is supposed to hold together in some sort of logical way, isn't it?
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2/4 --
A muddled thriller ... Peckinpah seems more interested in shooting laughable action sequences and exposing the bare breasts of his actresses than in relating a coherent story.
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Creative Loafing
[I]t combines a meaty cast with lurid psycho-sexual violence.
Uncut
...Competent, professional....Hauer is solid...
Variety
Product Description:
A T.V. personality looking forward to a weekend reunion party with several of his closest friends is presented with some rather exceptional information. He is told by the C.I.A. that his companions are Soviet agents. Will he trust his friends and betray his country, or will he uncover the secret agenda behind the operation'