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14 October 1983 (USA)
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The one weekend of the year you won't want to miss. more
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The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a...
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Beaten To Death
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2 wins
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(3 articles)
Five: Rutger Hauer Films Where He Is Not An Android
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Peckinpah's last
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Rutger Hauer | ... | John Tanner | |
| John Hurt | ... | Lawrence Fassett | |
| Craig T. Nelson | ... | Bernard Osterman | |
| Dennis Hopper | ... | Richard Tremayne | |
| Chris Sarandon | ... | Joseph Cardone | |
| Meg Foster | ... | Ali Tanner | |
| Helen Shaver | ... | Virginia Tremayne | |
| Cassie Yates | ... | Betty Cardone | |
| Sandy McPeak | ... | Stennings | |
| Christopher Starr | ... | Steve Tanner | |
| Burt Lancaster | ... | Maxwell Danforth | |
| Cheryl Carter | ... | Marcia Heller | |
| John Bryson | ... | Honeymoon Groom | |
| Anne Haney | ... | Honeymoon Bride | |
| Kristen Peckinpah | ... | Tremayne's Secretary |
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Mission CIA (Philippines: English title)
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103 min | USA:116 min (director's cut)
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Iceland:16 |
Finland:K-16 (2000) |
Finland:K-18 (1983) |
Norway:15 (re-rating) |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 (video re-rating) (2004) |
UK:18 (original rating) |
UK:18 (video rating) (1986) |
USA:R (certificate #27156) |
West Germany:16 |
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Sam Peckinpah was fired when he refused to re-edit the film after it was screened for a test audience on 25 May 1983 and met with a confused and extremely mixed reaction. Producers Peter S. Davis and William N. Panzer took over the editing with the assistance of editor Edward M. Abroms, drastically altering opening and ending sequences.
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Miscellaneous: When Tanner is warning the others to get out of the camper, he writes "Get out now". Richard is reading it aloud as "Get out of the camper now".
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Lawrence Fassett:
John, time for a face to face.
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Operation Double 007 (#6.8)" (1993)
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After the utterly ridiculous good-ol'-boy trucker film CONVOY in 1978, Sam Peckinpah languished for five years before returning in 1983 with what would prove to be his final film--THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND, based on Robert Ludlum's maddeningly complex 1972 spy novel.
Despite the fact that it is often cold and sometimes confusing, this film's weakest moments are far superior to even the strongest moments of CONVOY. Rutger Hauer stars as a hard-hitting TV talk show host with a habit of skewering people inside the U.S. government. As this film opens, he is about to have a reunion with five friends of his from the good old days of 1960s radical college politics.
But then a CIA operative (John Hurt) drops a bombshell on him: Those friends of his (Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Helen Shaver, Cassie Yates, Chris Sarandon) are supposedly traitors working for the Soviets in a scheme involving germ warfare sabotage. The result is that Hurt, with Hauer's reluctant acceptance, sets up surveillance equipment throughout Hauer's property to document further evidence of his friends' betrayal. When those people start coming unglued, however, more is at stake than just national security or the Cold War. So are peoples' lives!
Though Peckinpah was clearly on his last run while making it, THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND shows that he still could deliver the goods when it came to setting up great action sequences. The final shootout between Hurt's CIA underlings and Hauer and Nelson is edited in such a way as to resemble THE WILD BUNCH, while its actual filming suggests still another Peckinpah masterpiece, STRAW DOGS. Lalo Schifrin's score brilliantly accentuates things. Peckinpah, in depicting the head of the CIA (Burt Lancaster) as the heavy, also clearly makes a statement against America's heavy-handed approach toward Communism in the Reagan era.
All in all, despite its slight confusion, THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND works for those willing to give it a go.