City Slickers is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Helen Slater and Jack Palance. Palance won an Academy Award for his performance. It was shot in New York City, New Mexico, Durango, Colorado, and Spain. The film is #73 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies" and number 86 on AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs; it is notable for frequently interrupting its story with humorous musings on various contemporary topics. The film's plot — inexperienced cowboys battling villains as they press on with their cattle drive after the death... of their leader — is similar to John Wayne's The Cowboys. City Slickers was followed by a sequel, City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold, in 1994. New Yorker Mitch Robbins has just turned 39 years old, and is thick in the middle of a midlife crisis. His best friends are also having crises of their own. Phil Berquist is stuck managing his father-in-law's grocery store, while trapped in a sexless marriage with his overbearing wife, Arlene.
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| Release date: | June 7, 1991 |
| Directed by: | Ron Underwood |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 112 Minutes |
| Producer: | Billy Crystal, Irby Smith |
| Music by: | Marc Shaiman |
| Screenplay by: | Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel |
| Estimated budget: | $26,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action, Western, Adventure |