UNITED STATES · 1981

Southern Comfort

Walter Hill
survival military incompetence cultural clash Vietnam allegory man vs nature
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Synopsis

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.

Year1981
CountryUnited States
DirectorWalter Hill
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