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City Slickers
Synopsis
City Slickers blends sight gags, one-liners, and sincerity, with both humor and drama arising from the characters and their situations. Mitch (Billy Crystal) is a radio station sales executive who finds himself in the throes of a mid-life crisis; accompanied by two friends, Phil (Daniel Stern) and Ed (Bruno Kirby) in the grip of similar problems, he heads to New Mexico for his birthday to participate in a two-week vacation cattle drive to Colorado. The three friends and the rest of their group, including an attractive, newly single young woman and two African-American dentists, are all urbanites lost when it comes to herding cattle and surviving on the prairie; it's up to authentic, almost mythic cowboy Curly (Jack Palance, who won an Oscar for the role), to whip them into shape. As various adventures occur along the way, including run-ins with outlaw cattlehands, treacherous natural mishaps, and Mitch's delivery of a newborn calf, the three city slickers open up to each other, learn to appreciate Curly's Old West values, and begin to resolve their midlife dilemmas. When Curly dies, it's left to Mitch, Phil, and Ed to bring in the herd.~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
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  • Director:
    Ron Underwood,
  • Writer:
    Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel,
  • Producer:
    Irby Smith, Irby Smith, Billy Crystal,
  • Cinematographer:
    Dean Semler,
  • Editor:
    O. Nicholas Brown,
  • Executive Producer:
    Billy Crystal,
  • Cast:
    Jack Palance, Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Helen Slater, Patricia Wettig, Daniel Stern,
  • Assistant Editor:
    Bryan H. Carroll, Mark Perzely, Edward Malone,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Anthony Brand, Jim Chory, Doug Metzger, Jerry Ballew,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    Jeffrey Wetzel, Nina Kostroff-Noble,
  • Second Second Assistant Director:
    Irby Jay Smith Jr.,
  • Line Producer:
    Gregory Dark,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    Louis L. Edemann, Charles L. Campbell,
  • Camera Operator:
    George Loomis, Gary B. Kibbe,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Kerry Lyn McKissick, Beverly Winston,
  • ADR Mixer:
    Charleen Richards,
  • Art Department Coordinator:
    Renee Faia,
  • Boom Operator:
    George Baetz,
  • Construction Coordinator:
    Clarence Lynn Price,
  • Construction Foreman:
    Ray Rarick, Robert J. Carlyle, W. Scott Mason,
  • First Assistant Camera:
    Nathaniel Goodman, Lee Blasingame, Mark Davison, Ángel Yebra, Andreas Schneuwly,
  • Location Manager:
    James A. Maguire, Iddo Lampton Enochs Jr., Barbara Heller, Phillips 'Flip' Wylly Jr.,
  • Production Coordinator:
    Christy Dimmig,
  • Property Master:
    William A. Petrotta,
  • Set Dresser:
    John A. Scott III, Luigi Mugavero, Gary Kudroff, William Kemper Wright,
  • Sound Editor:
    Suhail Kafity, Chuck Neely, Leonard T. Geschke, Nils C. Jensen, Colin C. Mouat, Bob O'Brien,
  • ADR Supervisor:
    Alan L. Nineberg, Larry Singer,
  • Camera Loader:
    Alfonso Casado, Antonio Navarro,
  • Stunt Coordinator:
    Mickey Gilbert, Jerry Gatlin,
  • Other:
    Tim Song Jones,
  • Special Effects:
    Larz Anderson, Albert Delgado, Wayne Rose,
  • Electrician:
    Myke Groves, Ray Ortega, Randy Woods, Jim Carne, Rick A. Benedetto, Stephen Mullen,
  • Production Assistant:
    Sonya Ooten, Darin Rivetti,
  • Greensman:
    Bobby Joe Garren, Dennis Butterworth,
  • Utility Stunts:
    Tony Lee Boggs,
  • Stunts:
    R.J. Chambers, Lance Gilbert, Brian Burrows, Tim Gilbert, Troy Gilbert, Bobby Aldridge, Michael Adams,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Peter Montagna, Todd McIntosh,
  • Painter:
    Mark Konkel, Donald R. Abblett,
  • Unit Manager:
    Mairin Blake,
  • Grip:
    Paul Iski, John W. Murphy, William Eddie Paul, Doug Cowden, Kim Heath, Tom Meyer, Dave Anderberg, Kyle T. MacDowell,
  • Leadman:
    Mike Higelmire,
  • Sound Mixer:
    Robert Eber,
  • Key Hair Stylist:
    William A. Farley,
  • Lighting Technician:
    Scott Kidner,
  • Scoring Mixer:
    Joel Moss,
  • Conductor:
    Mark McKenzie, Hummie Mann,
  • Additional Photography:
    Robert Eber, Fernando Espiga,
  • Foley Recordist:
    Mary Jo Lang,
  • Unit Publicist:
    David Linck,
  • Foley Artist:
    Hilda Hodges, John Roesch, Kevin Bartnof,
  • Art Direction:
    Mark W. Mansbridge,
  • Transportation Coordinator:
    Bo Falck,
  • Production Accountant:
    K. Lenna Katich,
  • Second Unit Director:
    Fraser Clarke Heston, Mickey Gilbert,
  • Aerial Camera:
    Ron Goodman,
  • Costume Supervisor:
    Barbara Ayers, Deborah Lancaster, Christopher Lawrence,
  • Animation:
    Gary Mooney,
  • Storyboard Artist:
    Dick Lasley, Tom Southwell,
  • Music Editor:
    Lisa Morlas, Sherry Whitfield, Scott Stambler,
  • Musician:
    George Doering,
  • Still Photographer:
    Bruce McBroom,
  • Screenplay:
    Babaloo Mandel, Lowell Ganz,
  • Post Production Assistant:
    Insley Pearre,
  • Production Design:
    Lawrence G. Paull,
  • Best Boy Electric:
    Chuck Sharp,
  • Transportation Captain:
    Rick Mercier,
  • Animation Director:
    Bob Kurtz,
  • Transportation Co-Captain:
    Tony Mercier,
  • Matte Painter:
    Rocco Gioffre, Paul Curley,
  • Location Scout:
    Ginger Sledge,
  • Propmaker:
    Timothy Vierra, Clete Cetrone, Steven DeSantis,
  • Vocals:
    Edie Lehmann Boddicker,
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
    Rick Kline, Kevin O’Connell, Bob Beemer,
  • Extras Casting:
    Kenneth Post, Sylvia Fay,
  • Assistant Sound Editor:
    Patty Dobie, Ellen Decker Franklin,
  • Additional Music:
    Hummie Mann,
  • Set Decoration:
    Rick Simpson,
  • Key Makeup Artist:
    Ken Chase,
  • Orchestrator:
    Brad Dechter, Mark McKenzie, Frank Bennett, Thomas Richard Sharp,
  • Music Programmer:
    Nick Vidar,
  • Sound Recordist:
    Matt Patterson,
  • Assistant Location Manager:
    Jose Luis Trivino,
  • Assistant Property Master:
    Michael R. Gannon,
  • Negative Cutter:
    Gary Burritt,
  • Casting:
    Sally Jackson, Pam Dixon,
  • Set Designer:
    Geoff Hubbard, Stan Tropp,
  • Foley Mixer:
    James Ashwill,
  • Color Timer:
    Art Tostado,
  • Key Grip:
    William 'Bear' Paul, Eric Gigandet,
  • Wardrobe Supervisor:
    Timothy Alberts,
  • Carpenter:
    Christopher Windisch, Alan Swain,
  • Costume Design:
    Judy L. Ruskin,
  • Cableman:
    Roger Stevenson,
  • Dolly Grip:
    Jonathan Woolf, Chris Espeset,
  • Production Driver:
    Russ Tolliver,
  • Second Company Grip:
    Gil Valle,
  • Special Effects Coordinator:
    Ken Pepiot,
  • ADR Editor:
    Thomas Whiting,
  • Second Assistant Camera:
    Leigh Feitelberg, Steve Banister, Dudley J. Voll,
  • Production Manager:
    Edward D. Markley,
  • Assistant Costume Designer:
    Mary Zophres,
  • Casting Associate:
    Marla Shertz Wilson,
  • Original Music Composer:
    Marc Shaiman,
  • Stunt Double:
    Chema,
  • Gaffer:
    Melton C. Maxwell,
  • Assistant Camera:
    Edward A. Gutentag,
  • Hairstylist:
    Candida Conery,
  • Stunt Driver:
    Mack MacReady,

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