City Slickers
City Slickers poster
Directed by	Ron Underwood
Produced by	Billy Crystal Irby Smith
Written by	Lowell Ganz Babaloo Mandel
Starring	Billy Crystal Bruno Kirby Daniel Stern Helen Slater Jack Palance
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	June 7, 1991 (USA)
Running time	112 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

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. Image File history File links City_slickers_ver2. ... Ronald Brian Underwood, (born November 6, 1953), is an American film director. ... Billy Crystal Billy Crystal (born March 14, 1947 in Long Beach, New York) is an American actor, writer, producer, and film director. ... Lowell Ganz (born August 31, 1948 in New York, New York) is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. ... Marc Babaloo Mandel (born: October 13, 1949 in New York City) is an American writer. ... Billy Crystal Billy Crystal (born March 14, 1947 in Long Beach, New York) is an American actor, writer, producer, and film director. ... Bruno Kirby, born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, Jr. ... Daniel Stern Daniel Stern (born August 28, 1957, in Bethesda, Maryland), is an American television and film actor. ... Helen Slater Helen Rachel Slater (neé Schlachter, born December 15, 1963 in Massapequa, New York) is an American film actress and singer-songwriter of Jewish descent. ... Jack Palance, (born Volodymyr Palanyuk (Ukr: Володимир Паланюк))on February 18, 1919, in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA), is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Columbia Pictures current logo. ... June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... Billy Crystal Billy Crystal (born March 14, 1947 in Long Beach, New York) is an American actor, writer, producer, and film director. ... Bruno Kirby, born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, Jr. ... Daniel Stern Daniel Stern (born August 28, 1957, in Bethesda, Maryland), is an American television and film actor. ... Helen Slater Helen Rachel Slater (neé Schlachter, born December 15, 1963 in Massapequa, New York) is an American film actress and singer-songwriter of Jewish descent. ... Jack Palance, (born Volodymyr Palanyuk (Ukr: Володимир Паланюк))on February 18, 1919, in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA), is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...

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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. A mid-life crisis is an emotional state of doubt and anxiety in which a person becomes uncomfortable with the realization that life is halfway over. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships — including domestic partnership, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the Roman Empire). ...

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. Brazillian supermodel Gisele Bundchen. ...

The three men arrive at the cattle drive with other visitors and meet their gruff trail boss, Curly (played by Palance), an intimidating figure who may not be the most approachable. 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. Mitch eventually comes to respect Curly, whom he finds to be deeply fascinating and wise. But unexpectedly, Curly dies soon after they return to camp, and it is 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' thug 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. Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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

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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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Trivia

• In the sequel: City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold it is revealed that Curly's "One Thing" is honesty.
• In talking about their best days, Billy Crystal's is actually a retelling of a biographical story about seeing his first baseball game at Yankee Stadium.

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See also

• Meaning of life

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External links

• City Slickers at the Internet Movie Database