The Osterman Weekend Movie Review
The Osterman Weekend Review
"The Osterman Weekend" Overview
Rating: R
1983
Cast and Crew
Director : Sam PeckinpahProducer : Peter S. Davis,William N. Panzer
Screenwiter : Ian Masters,Alan Sharp
Starring Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver, Cassie Yates, Sandy Mcpeak, Christopher Starr, Burt Lancaster, Cheryl Carter
Think The Big Chill, but if all but one of the attendees were Soviet secret agents... or are they??? Rutger Hauer plays the good guy for once, as a Hardball-style TV show host who becomes convinced by a vengeful CIA agent (John Hurt) that his pals (including Craig T. "Coach" Nelson as the titular Osterman -- "a nihilistic anarchist living on risiduals") are all KGB operatives. Sam Peckinpah's final movie is stylish, has loads of nudity and other debauchery, and makes virtually no sense at all. Cheers!
Reviewer: Christopher Null
