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The Osterman Weekend
An outspoken television personality, John Tanner (Rutger Hauer) has an annual tradition of going away with three college buddies. John then is convinced by the CIA that his friends are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
24 February 1951, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
21 February 1936, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
4 April 1944, Spokane, Washington, USA
2 November 1913, New York City, New York, USA
24 July 1942, Beckley, West Virginia, USA
21 February 1925, Fresno, California, USA
4 November 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
22 January 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
August 31, 2004
Never been more current than it is now--and if it's imperfect, it's imperfect in exactly the right way.
March 22, 2004
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.
January 01, 2000
The structure is a mess (the film was recut against Peckinpah's wishes), which ultimately makes it difficult to tell whether its oddly compelling qualities are the result of a coherent artistic strategy or the cynical carelessness of a director sidelined.
January 01, 2000
It rattles along well enough as a thriler of the political paranoia variety.
March 31, 2010
A wild ride into Cold War paranoia and the dangers of technocracy.
May 20, 2003
Some individual sequences -- including a car chase early in the film - have the lunatic humor that might have made the rest of the film bearable, though probably nothing would justify the film's final blood bath.
August 30, 2006
Director Sam Peckinpah's final film is certainly not among his best, but it is interesting nonetheless.
August 11, 2011
Too bad this confusing, incoherent satirical espionage thriller turned out to be the swan song of Sam Peckinpah,who made so many good films (The Wild Bunch).
March 29, 2004
Despite some script contrivances, it finds Peckinpah high in the saddle again and full of the same old thunder and lightning.
October 23, 2004
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?
June 19, 2001
Sam Peckinpah's final movie is stylish, has loads of nudity and other debauchery, and makes virtually no sense at all. Cheers!
