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City Slickers is a 1991 movie comedy starring Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, Helen Slater, and Jack Palance. Palance won the year's Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this film.

A sequel was released years later, City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
, with Jon Lovitz taking the place of Kirby, but it was not received as well as the original.

Plot overview

Crystal, Kirby, and Stern are three thirty- or forty-something year old men each going through their own mid-life crisis. Crystal's character, Mitch Robbins, feels especially depressed about his job and family. At a party, his lifelong friends (Kirby and Stern) show him a brochure for a Southwestern cattle drive vacation that they have signed up to go on for two weeks.

Stern's character is the manager of a grocery store owned by his father-in-law. When one of the store's checkout girls suddenly arrives at the party and reveals her affair with Stern's character. Subsequently, his wife threatens to divorce him. Kirby's character, newly married to a woman with supermodel looks, faces the pressure of being a father.

The three men arrive at the cattle drive with other visitors and meet their gruff trail boss, Curly (played by Palance). Curly and Mitch eventually bond when they go off to round up strays, and Mitch even assists in giving birth to a calf he names Norman. Curly dies soon after they return to camp, and it's left to the people who signed up for this trip to finish the drive because the cook has a broken leg and the trail boss' assistants have become drunk and abandoned the tour.

Crystal, Kirby, and Stern's characters lead the herd back successfully to the Colorado ranch, and Crystal shares the last thing Curly taught him. It was a profound existentialist lesson (like Kierkegaard's idea that I could live and die for): what really matters in life is for each of us to find our passion, our "One Thing". Mitch finds his "One Thing" as he nearly drowns in a rain-swollen river. He is saved, returns to his family, and embarks on a more meaningful, purposeful life.

One of the movie's best lines happens on the second morning of the drive when Mitch sarcastically asks Curly: "Mornin', Curly. Kill anybody today?" Glaring straight at Mitch, Curly replies, "Day ain't over, yet."

Selected cast

Billy Crystal
as Mitch Robbins
Daniel Stern as Phil Berquist
Bruno Kirby
as Ed Furillo
Jack Palance
as Curly Washburn
Patricia Wettig
as Barbara Robbins
Helen Slater
as Bonnie Rayburn
Noble Willingham
as Clay Stone
Tracey Walter as Cookie
Josh Mostel as Barry Shalowitz
David Paymer
as Ira Shalowitz

Notable minor cast members

Jake Gyllenhaal
made his film debut at age eleven as Danny Robbins, Mitch's son.
Billy's Crystal's daughter Lindsay Crystal plays his character's daughter, Holly Robbins.
Yeardley Smith
, best known as the voice of the animated character Lisa Simpson, plays the checkout girl who reveals that she and Phil have been having an affair.

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Actors - City Slickers

Plot overview

Selected cast

Notable minor cast members

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